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...Received and balked at the President's fourth (and last) proposal to reorganize and consolidate Federal bureaus. Major shifts: Weather Bureau from Agriculture Department to Commerce Department; Food & Drug Administration from Agriculture to Paul McNutt's Federal Security Agency; the hitherto independent Civil Aeronautics Authority to the Commerce Department. Major balk: against hobbling CAA and abolishing its Air Safety Board...
...Roosevelt could be dispensed with by wishful thinking, next in favor for the Chief Executive's seat would be Thomas E. Dewey, according to the poll, who, with 33.8 per cent favorable votes, holds a commanding 3 to 1 lead over his nearest rival, Paul V. McNutt...
Professor Elmer E. Nyberg, who teaches public speaking at New York University, revised and enlarged his ratings for public speakers as of 1940: grade C-Cordell Hull, Paul V. McNutt ("an orator, not a public speaker"), Robert A. Taft; Grade B plus-Arthur H. Vandenberg (too harsh) and Thomas E. Dewey; Grade A minus-Franklin D. Roosevelt (A plus until he "started to scold"); Grade A plus -Herbert Hoover (Grade...
During the week an Indianapolis Federal grand jury was dismissed without acting on Mr. McNutt's income taxes. Still Treasury snoops prowled...
Public sympathy for much-enduring Mr. McNutt seemed curiously apathetic. Possible explanation: plain citizens may feel that a man who has trained as publicly for the Presidency as Mr. McNutt has done all his life is fair game...