Word: tolan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody paid much attention to a report four weeks ago by the House Tolan Committee urging a single high economic commander with full power to coordinate supply (Donald Nelson's job), manpower (Paul McNutt) and economic stabilization (James F. Byrnes). Nor did bills to set up the command, quietly dropped into Senate and House hoppers, set Capitol Hill or the Administration on fire...
...Washington last week one of the prettiest displays of conflicting statements and general-refusal-to-face-facts in quite a few weeks. They centered in the grave problem of a coming "shortage" of U.S. manpower. (The problem, as the Tolan Congressional committee had indicated, was partly a shortage of U.S. brainpower in using the available manpower. But there was abundant evidence of genuine shortages...
Next day Mr. McNutt "froze" manpower in the dairy, livestock and poultry industries, and sent a directive to Selective Service to send a directive to local draft boards to defer all such farm workers. (Week before the Tolan committee noted the testimony of General Hershey: "Of course, the local boards need not pay any attention to 99% of the things which we send out. It is a good thing they do not have...
...cities where shortages are worst. He persuaded the Army & Navy to check with draft boards before accepting enlistments, and set up a drastic manpower plan for Government employes (who henceforth are subject to being moved to new jobs anywhere the Civil Service Commission sees fit). And before the House Tolan Committee, he made the strongest, clearest case yet for giving him similar power over all American workers...
...year. Another was Jonathan W. Daniels, novelist and editor-son of an editor-father. This man of letters was "director of program planning." For "operations director" the OCD named a New York social worker named Hugh Jackson, and as survey director, Mary Dublin, formerly with the Tolan Committee...