Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foresaw the need was handsome, silver-topped Paul Vories McNutt, who looked at his title of Manpower Tsar and found it meaningless. McNutt's job was to mobilize the nation's men & women for war, get them into the most productive jobs, keep them there. But for all his glamorous title and vast task, he lacked the power...
...When McNutt sent a man to the West Coast to stop pirating of workers by stabilizing wages, he ran head on into two other war agencies. Wage Boss William H. Davis' man was there with a second plan. Price Boss Leon Henderson's man was there with a third plan. The conference fell, with a loud, painful thump, among the three Government stools...
...McNutt's great worry was the nation's impending manpower shortage, heading toward a crux in the fall. To cope with it he might have to order nonwar workers to switch to new jobs, might have to "freeze" war workers in their present jobs. But until the U.S. had a sensible wage policy, reducing inequalities from plant to plant and industry to industry, labor would never stand for "freezing." And McNutt had no power over wages. Nor did Production Boss Donald Nelson, though he had all the responsibility for factory output...
...confusion and lack of direction continue. College men still query, "What should I do?" Director Hershey states publicly that he will be forced to draft any man applying for the ERC who has not yet been accepted, and the pretentious War Manpower Commission under Paul McNutt stands idly by. There is now before the War Manpower Commission a War Service Bill, comparable to the one in England, which would mobilize the total manpower of the nation--now. Nothing is more important than for the bill to set up a plan which will eliminate the present incoherence. For if we ever...
Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt had appointed a child-care coordinator: sandy-haired Charles Irwin Schottland of the Children's Bureau. Mr. Schottland went straight to Mr. McNutt's War Manpower Commission for help. His problem: how to overcome the scarcity of servants and of day nurseries. He also had a plan: let the U.S. make grants to States to finance a variety of child-care facilities...