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...Manpower Draft. "We shall be compelled to stop workers from moving from one war job to another as a matter of personal preference; to stop employers from stealing labor from each other; to use older men, and handicapped people, and more women...
...somewhat changed, more modest, even more ascetic Ben Cohen who now settled himself at practical Jimmy Byrnes's right hand-ready to draft his orders, do his leg work, feed him ideas. In the palmy middle years of the New Deal, Ben Cohen and Thomas G. ("The Cork") Corcoran were in there swinging hard for New Deal reforms. They drafted the SEC and Holding Company Acts; they helped map Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court fight, helped plot the unsuccessful 1938 political purge...
...Partner Cohen faded from the Washington spotlight. He volunteered as adviser to U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant in London to help speed Lend-Lease. After a brief spell in England he returned to Washington. Although he dropped off the Government payroll, he stayed in the background, occasionally helping to draft a bill, to give advice. He turned down several jobs offered by Franklin Roosevelt. Still an ardent New Dealer, it was winning the war that seemed important now. He was waiting for the spot in which he could be most effective. Right-hand man to Economic Czar Byrnes was just...
Birthplace of this program was Washington, but the baby is strictly Minnesota's. Governor Stassen went to the Capital, he explained, in an attempt to get manpower action from Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt and Draft Boss Major General Lewis B. Hershey. Getting promises but no action, Governor Stassen scribbled an eleven-point plan in a borrowed notebook, telephoned it from his hotel to St. Paul. Said he: "Either we are going to have . . . more women employed ... or we are going to have disorder. That's what we've been having...
President Conant has proposed that since the draft age is to be lowered to 18, the college be transformed into a training school for high school graduates who have technical abilities which could be usefully developed by the Army and Navy. This would exclude a Liberal Arts course at Harvard...