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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...
...Gray put his fire into nose-thumbing rhetoric, got himself sued by Horace Greeley, denounced by Charles Dickens (then touring the U.S. like "a peevish cockney traveling without his breakfast"). Bigger fame came to the Plain Dealer when its "Commercial Editor," Charles Farrar Brown, started a humorous column signed "Artemus Ward." Editor Gray died at 48, torturously, of having an eye put out by his son's cap pistol...
Lieut. Commander Robert Lovett became a banker, a partner in Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. So did his chum of Locust Valley, Yale and Dunkirk, Lieut. Commander Artemus Gates who became president of the New York Trust Co., a director of many corporations including TIME Inc. Early this year Franklin Roosevelt revived the post of Assistant Secretary of War for Air (it had lapsed under the New Deal) and named Bob Lovett to the job. Last week he moved again, appointed a new Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air-this time Artemus Gates. In 25 years the Yale Unit had flown...