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...Harvard professor of government, Merle Fainsod, who heads OPA's new Retail Trade & Services Division. There was serious trade talk of an ultimate need for no less than 300,000 OPA policemen. Long before that number are hired, Professor Fainsod will find himself smack up against Paul McNutt's manpower mobilization problem...
Fourth-draft registrants will have no order numbers or lottery, will not be inducted into military service. They will, however, provide a vast new reservoir of skilled and unskilled labor which tall, tanned, handsome Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt plans to tap freely as the defense industry manpower shortage becomes more acute...
...greatest asset, was being wasted-by lack of coordination, in government and out, by the draft, by unregulated enlistments of men who were more useful in their jobs than in the services, by industrial competition for skilled and able managers. The order would stop all that-as fast as McNutt could...
...McNutt, whom organized labor had once opposed on account of his past labor record, in the past two years had carefully made his peace in that quarter. Now the sun rose in glory upon politically ambitious Mr. McNutt. While the full scope of his authority was not entirely clear, men who expertly analyze White House orders were sure that snow-crested Paul McNutt, who had rejected a sure Vice Presidential nomination in Chicago in 1940 because Franklin Roosevelt wanted Henry A. Wallace, had received a compound-interest reward...
...nine-man board, to include the Secretaries of War, Navy, Agriculture & Labor, WPB Chairman Nelson, representatives of the labor-production division of WPB, the Selective Service system, the Civil Service Commission. In all matters of manpower these mighty ones were directed to defer to Chairman McNutt...