Word: mcnutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul V. McNutt, federal social security administrator, visited Cambridge last night to attend the annual alumni reunion of the Harvard Acacia Club...
...indirectly promised the Vice-Presidency, or boosted for it, by some member of Hopkins & Co. These included: Cordell Hull, William B. Bankhead, James Byrnes. William O. Douglas, Robert H. Jackson, Louis Johnson, Henry A. Wallace, Culbert Olson, Lloyd C. Stark, Sam Rayburn, Jesse H. Jones. Scott Lucas. Paul V. McNutt, Charles Sawyer...
Only Speaker Bankhead, whose candidacy could not be serious, Henry Wallace and Paul McNutt were left in the race. It was McNutt's chance-a chance to wreak doubly-sweet revenge on the New Dealers who knifed his Presidential candidacy...
Sweating, trembling, his face rock-graven, Paul McNutt stood on the platform, drawing the greatest ovation of the Convention; a starving man pushing food away. He drew a carefully typed statement from his pocket, began: "In the first place . . ." but the crowd shouted him down. Up & down the aisles strode Jimmy Byrnes, whispering angrily: "For God's sake, do you want a President or a Vice President?" For Franklin Roosevelt had postponed his acceptance speech until the work of the Convention was done, i.e., until Wallace was nominated...
...Finally McNutt was allowed to with draw. Yet even so, out of 1,100 votes, only 627 were cast for Wallace - a nearly 50% rebellion against the expressed will of the President...