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...send it sliding into the treacherous sea of independence. War had holed the uncompleted hull. Hurriedly the Administration in Washington planned a patching job. Last week, while the tools and blueprints were still being got together, it sent Indiana's slightly dented political knight-errant, Paul V. McNutt, off to Manila as High Com missioner, to straw-boss the work...
Manpower controls will also go by the board as the labor pool fills up. Within 30 days Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt tentatively plans to suspend most of his job controls. WPB estimates that within six months 1,500,000 men will be released from war plants, plus a net gain of 500,000 from military releases...
...Paul V. McNutt, platinum-haired War Manpower Commissioner, recommended "extermination of the Japanese-in toto" The onetime U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines explained: "I know the Japanese people...
Next day War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V. McNutt announced (speaking for Byrnes) that he had been authorized to exempt restaurants from the curfew, provided they sold no liquor, offered no entertainment after midnight...
...soft pillow used to smother the May-Bailey bill was another bill whipped up by West Virginia's New Dealing Senator Harley M. Kilgore, whose constituency is heavily weighted with labor votes, mostly United Mine Workers. The Kilgore measure would hand the manpower problem over to Paul V. McNutt's War Manpower Commission (which has fumbled it from the beginning). It would give neither WMC nor anyone else the authority needed in the crisis. Labor and management have come out for the Kilgore bill...