Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the old workingman's South End neighborhood, where he lived for years, Mike moved to the fashionable Maumee River section of the city, buying a big white stucco house with "the biggest mortgage on the block." There, some 25 Di Salles of three generations 'and any number of guests converge on weekends. They devour mountains of Myrtle's antipasto, prosciutto, spaghetti, pork and chicken, and then, with a pot of caffe espresso at hand, swim for the rest of the afternoon in the warm gurgling current of Italo-American argument and gossip...
...Suitcases. But by last fall Mike was getting restless again. He tried with little success to beat out State Auditor Joseph ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate and the honor of being shellacked by Republican Bob Taft. He was already beginning to think about 1952 when the telephone rang last November and Washington offered him the OPS job. By coincidence, it was Eric Johnston who put Mike Di Salle up for the job-weeks before Johnston himself moved into the mobilization picture as Di Salle's immediate superior. Johnston had heard a lot about...
...Mike accepted on the spot, and with a characteristic wisecrack. "What have I got to lose?" he asked. "After all, I've only got one political life to give to my country." Then he packed two suitcases, kissed his wife and five children goodbye, and headed for Washington to take over...
...pernicious Washington climate ("I think it's a wonderful town," says Di Salle "but I don't think the country could stand two of 'em"). When action-loving Charles E. Wilson moved in to take supreme command of mobilization, it was busy, good-humored Mike Di Salle who seemed to Wilson to spell "do something"; it was nervous, cautious Alan Valentine who seemed to spell "do nothing" (actually Valentine did want to do something, but just couldn't seem to get along with people or get the hang of going about...
...when the U.S. was just picking itself up after the Depression, the nation's economy was already bulging with inflationary pressures. Di Salle clamped on a general price freeze that was admittedly just a stopgap. But at least it was a beginning. 'The trouble around here," said Mike, is that everybody is so afraid of making a mistake that nobody gets anything done. We are bound to make some mistakes...