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...that philosophical ring. Chester C. Davis, whom the elder Wallace originally brought to Washington to work on the McNary-Haugen plan, is now Son Wallace's chief AAA man. Those two and their aides- Publicity Man Alfred D. Stedman. AAA Wheat Director George E. Farrell, Assistant Secretary Milburn L. Wilson. Economic Adviser Mordecai Ezekiel-are the executors of what Son Wallace thinks his father would have liked...
Last week in Washington an Associated Pressman had a talk about Reedsville with Charles E. Pynchon, the big, genial, earnest onetime Chicago steelman who took over the general managership of Subsistence Homesteads when its original director, Milburn Lincoln Wilson, moved to the Department of Agriculture. Afterward the APer filed a dispatch quoting Manager Pynchon to the effect that the Government stood to lose $500,000 on the Reedsville project, with blame laid partly on "experimentation," partly on "errors in judgment." He also revealed that the President's No. 1 Secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, purchaser of the famed CCC toilet...
...Modelled after the late Harry Payne Whitney's famed ''Big Four'' which won the international matches against England in 1909 and coached by the "Big Four's" famed Back, Devereux Milburn, the team that played for the East last week was built around its No. 3, tall, brawny, 27-year-old Winston Guest, second cousin of Britain's Winston Churchill. After last week's game young Winston Guest did not even wait for dinner before rushing to town with his bride, Helena McCann Guest, to tell the New York Young Republican Club...
Plan-Maker. The President's "pet children" are also problem children, and Milburn L. Wilson, the man whose exhibit touched off the President's enthusiasm, is their tutor. Tutor Wilson was an Iowa farm boy, who got a college education and went back to farming. Later he became head of the division of Farm Management for the Department of Agriculture. As a professor at Montana State College, he plunged into the problem of dry-farming, of raising more wheat per acre than had been grown before. Soon overproduction reversed his problem. He disowns authorship of the Domestic Allotment...
...Arthur W. Milburn moved up from the presidency of Borden Co. to a new office known simply as Chief Executive. Last week when his successor, President Albert T. Johnston, resigned on account of ill health, Mr. Milburn returned to the presidency. The office of Chief Executive was abolished...