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With committee tempers frayed, bluff Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton resorted to an old Washington device: he appointed a subcommittee to draft a compromise. What worried Muley Doughton most, however, was that U.S. citizens, looking toward pay-as-you-go as a sensible improvement in taxation methods, were not filing their 1943 returns with anything like the alacrity they showed last year. He warned taxpayers that the March 15 installment would be due this year, as in all previous years. Best estimate was that not until after the June 15 payment would tax collections be put on a current-income...
...Administration's manpower plans were so muddled that no man of draft age could be certain of his status; none could know when or whether he would be working for the Army or Paul V. McNutt...
...maze of changing draft rules, moves for industrial conscription, bills to defer and furlough farm workers, only one decision was clear-by the end of 1943 the U.S. would have an armed force of 11,000,000 men. Franklin Roosevelt told newsmen they could bank on that...
...Selective Service machinery had moved the first 5,000,000 men into uniform. But fortnight ago, SSS hit one of the worst snarls in military conscription since the U.S. entered World War II: 1) Manpower Czar Paul McNutt switched the yardstick for deferment from dependency to essentiality; 2) local draft boards, tussling with changing classifications and categories, were unable to keep pace with the demand for Army & Navy manpower...
From the Senate came another wrench in manpower planning. Alabama's John H. Bankhead drafted two bills to defer agricultural labor from the draft, force the release on furlough for farm work of Army men who had been farmers. Franklin Roosevelt made a countermove-suggested some use of soldiers in harvesting crops, volunteer harvesting by children...