Word: artemus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back to Washington, the burning questions of Congressional independence and Congressional value will be fresher than ever. In 154 years, Congress has often been the butt. Mark Twain put it savagely: "Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." Artemus Ward cried: "Congress, you won't do. Go home you mizzerable devils-go home!" But Congress is used to brickbats and other forms of political rudeness native to the U.S. scene. Congress knows that it can discount a good deal of the characteristically jeering American attitude toward the elected...
...subject of foreign air routes is the main concern of a hush-hush Interdepartmental Committee on International Aviation, of which CABoss Pogue is a member and Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. is chairman. Other members : Artemus Gates and Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretaries for Air of Navy and War; Wayne Chatfield Taylor, Under Secretary of Commerce; and Milo Perkins, executive director of the Board of Economic Warfare. Their report will probably be made public next September, when an Anglo-American conference on postwar aviation will be held in Washington...
When the California meeting ends, Frank Russell will resign his directorships, open an office in Washington. Already he had been offered more than one Government job. Always before his good friends in the Government-Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretary of War for Air, Artemus L. Gates of the Navy, and Ted Wright of WPB-have advised him to stay away from Washington, to keep close to the production line. This time they gave him the green light. His job: to help cut red tape between Government and the aircraft industry as effectively as individual companies have learned to break bottlenecks...
...Military Affairs subcommittee, flying hellbent north on a rush-rush, hush-hush mission to learn the "truth" about Alaska. They were going too fast to see much, if anything, but reporters said they apparently were having a good time en route. Back from Alaska came two fighting Congressmen and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. One was a mum-mouthed Texan, Lyndon Johnson, recently returned from the South Pacific, where he was one of the President's observers with General MacArthur. The other, Warren Magnuson of Washington, talked a little. His conclusions...
...sees walking reminders of the old outfit daily. F. Trubee Davison, one of the pilots of the Yale Unit, is a Colonel on the Army Air Staff.* Another, Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, next door, in the Navy Building, is Lovett's opposite number: Assistant Secretary of the Navy...