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...make such decisions are not in the new wartime civilian agencies: Donald Nelson's WPB, Leon Henderson's OPA, Paul McNutt's WMC, William Davis' WLB, the Henry Wallace-Milo Perkins BEW. For each of these men has a single segment of the problem to work on, each has shadowy authority stemming only from the President, and as often as not they are in conflict with one another...
Philip Francis Maguire, 37, is a genial, rock-jawed Irishman who went to Washington as lawyer for the old NRA, later helped Milo Perkins get his famed food-stamp plan started. Now he is an anonymous assistant to WPBoss Donald Nelson, serving as buffer and jack-of-all-trades, working ably and realistically on a dozen jobs at once. A bear for detail, he has taken all the load of minutiae off Nelson's overburdened shoulders...
...erred. Mr. Roosevelt had said very clearly that the BEW henceforth was to "determine the policies [and] plans . . . with respect to the procurement and production [of materials abroad]." The order had given a boost to Vice President Wallace, Milo Perkins, and their BEW; had thrown State into a dignified dither. The upstart BEW seemed to have been authorized to rush into State's well-kept gardens, trample State's delicate diplomatic plants abroad...
Stocky, slit-eyed Milo Randolph Perkins, instead of going to college, sold newspapers, magazine subscriptions, fruits and vegetables, gunny sacks. At 23, risen to sales manager for Bemis Bros. Bag Co. in Houston, Tex., he quit to start his own business. At 35, he was making $20,000 a year...
...Milo. When he arrived in Washington in 1935, Perkins was just a routine curiosity: a successful businessman who had embraced the New Deal. But after he thought up the food-stamp plan for giving surplus food to poor families - a scheme that pleased grocers as much as relief clients - he was a sensation. This was one New Deal program that worked without a squeak from anyone...