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Over the Wire

Cabinet change Put Off

WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt, apparently postponing plans for a cabinet shakeup, has tentatively decided to attack the manpowere problem by retaining Paul V. McNutt as War Manpower Chief and granting him wider powers over the nation's human resources, well-informed officials said tonight.

The decision, it was added, came after Secretary of the Interior Harold D. Ickes and President Daniel J. Tobin of the AFL Teamstors Union eliminate dthemsolves as prospects to replace Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor with full control over the manpower set-up.

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