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Labor faced the wartime loss of the most basic of all its economic rights-the right to quit a job and go to work elsewhere. The McNutt Manpower Mobilization Board put on its fright wig last week and announced that war workers were going to have to stay put. would have to quit changing jobs to get higher wages in other labor-short war plants. The Board's reason: pirating of workers by manufacturers who offer higher pay impedes production and upsets wage scales which the Government is trying to stabilize...
After Repeal, when Asher broke with Paul V. McNutt's local politicians, his noisy cafe, the "Wig-Warn," lost its liquor license. When HOLC foreclosed on him, he broke with Roosevelt and started X-Ray ("A Beacon for Taxpayers and Honest Labor"). In its five years its circulation has wavered between...
Franklin Roosevelt said: "I have brought all the former Governors and High Commissioners, for 20 years back, down here to greet you." Excited, happy Manuel Quezon greeted Henry L. Stimson, Dwight F. Davis, Frank Murphy, Paul V. McNutt, Francis B. Sayre...
...made friends with Governor Paul V. McNutt, who hired him as secretary, made him Indiana WPA administrator, took him along to the Philippines. When McNutt switched from High Commissioner of the Philippines to FSAdministrator, Coy went along as McNutt's assistant in Washington. There the beautiful friendship broke on the rocks of jealousy: McNutt tried to write the first blueprint for OCD; President Roosevelt, dissatisfied, turned the job over...
...curly head of Wendell Lund, son of a Lutheran minister, had set on the stooped, little Russian-born son of a Jewish merchant. After almost three years of anxious, conscientious, misunderstood service to Franklin Roosevelt, Hillman was through. He had wanted the job that went to Paul McNutt. The job that went to Wendell Lund might have galled him. But what would have been a long step down for Sidney Hillman was a long step up for Wendell Lund...