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...team: >Tall, portly Donald Marr Nelson, the onetime Sears, Roebuck executive who plugged along quietly within the old National Defense Advisory Commission, grew in stature with every reorganization, finally emerged as the nation's Chief of the War Production Board. > Silver-haired, tall, tan and handsome Paul Varies McNutt, a joiner and doer who once looked like a merely ambitious politician, wound up last week as chief of all the nation's manpower in the new War Manpower Commission (see col. 2). > Brisk, terrible-tempered Leon Henderson, the Great Jawbone, who managed the nation's fight against...
...start the great job, the President created a War Manpower Commission. He named as boss the man who had drawn up the first tentative plan: Federal Security Administrator Paul Vories McNutt. And to Manpowerman McNutt he gave an executive order that was a basic blueprint for regimentation-if the demands of total war required regimentation. The 132,000,000 U.S. citizens, unsure and shaken, prayed that Mr. McNutt would use his great power wisely...
...Farm Credit Administration) explains itself; FSA (Farm Security Ad ministration) aids tenant farmers, sharecroppers, migrant farm labor. Another FSA (Federal Security Administration) administers social security, public health, etc. Chief is Paul V. McNutt...
...McNutt manpower-mobilization plan was dead, buried in the graveyard file on Mr. Roosevelt's desk. Both Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt and WPB's Sidney Hillman had wanted to be the head man. Logical person to mobilize the country's labor force was the Labor Secretary: Madam Perkins was obviously unsuited. President Roosevelt could have replaced her-but labor leaders, after hours of haggling over who should be her successor, failed to agree; neither A.F. of L. nor C.I.O. chiefs would take a man from the other side. Indications were that no agency would...
...perhaps happier days were ahead. The Fitness Division was taken over by Paul McNutt's Federal Security Administration. Soon, perhaps, the Office of Civilian Defense could concentrate on civilian defense...