Word: wadsworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American manpower was fast approaching this week. On Washington's Capitol Hill two Republicans-Vermont's Senator Warren Austin, New York's Representative James Wadsworth -dropped identical bills into the legislative hoppers. The small black type of the preambles read quietly: ". . . to provide further for the comprehensive, orderly and effective mobilization of the man power and the woman power in support of the war effort...
Points of the Wadsworth-Austin bill...
...jobs ,000,000 with the armed services, 20,000,000 in war production, 12,000,000 on the farms, 22,000,000 for irreducible civilian work. The 4-way strains of these huge forces have been wrenching the U.S. economy apart. Clear purpose of the Wadsworth-Austin measure was to challenge an Administration which has been studying the problem, but shying away from a tangle with Congress...
...looked as if the Administration favored National Service, had a plan blueprinted, but was still fearful of Congress' reactions. If so, Republicans Austin & Wadsworth may have saved it the trouble. Said Senator Austin: "The new bill will establish equal treatment for all . . . government by consent of the governed...
Staying out of the spotlight, yet efficiently meeting the employment needs of a Harvard at war, this busy little office located in Wadsworth House now has the task of regulating and adjusting the problems of over 3,700 University employees...