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George Ade watched the U.S. forget Artemus Ward and Josh Billings, the great humorists of his youth, and knew that one generation's wit is another generation's banality. He saw his own slang ("the cold grey dawn of the morning after"; "I felt like thirty cents") become shopworn clichés. And he came to believe that the only funny thing he ever wrote...
Jimmy Forrestal plunged into his new job with characteristic vigor. Returning from Frank Knox's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, he put in two hours of work at his office. Forthwith, he inaugurated daily staff meetings with Assistant Navy Secretaries Ralph A. Bard and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates. He conferred with top admirals on progress of the war, talked with the Army and Congressmen over the proposal to combine the Army & Navy into one department after the war. Then, with WPB's bustling Charles E. Wilson, he made a flying trip to Boston to pep up production...
...Ingalls, the Navy's No. 1 ace and later U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, now in the Pacific; Kenneth MacLeish, whose death in battle against eight German fighters was memorialized by brother Archibald MacLeish; F. Trubee Davison, now a colonel in the Army Air Forces; Artemus L. Gates, now Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air; and Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretary...
...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...