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...tempered Leon Henderson, the Great Jawbone, who managed the nation's fight against inflation and its rationing schemes, bossed civilian supply. and became the biggest financial man in the U.S. as boss of OPA. > The team of thoughtful, gentle Vice President Henry Wallace and his alter ego, Businessman Milo Perkins, who got full power last week to forge international trade into a weapon against the Axis in their Board of Economic Warfare
...long struggle for wartime power in Washington, a team finally emerged last week to take command of U.S. economic warfare over the world: Vice President Henry Agard Wallace and his right-hand man Milo Perkins. Their Board of Economic Warfare was nine months old; but the power given them by the President and the importance of their seats in his cut-down War Cabinet were not only...
Wallace, who will soon resign from WPB's board to give full attention to BEW, already has a hand-picked staff of 1,100,*swarming all over a new apartment building on Washington's Q Street. Above all, he has Milo Perkins, 42, of Milwaukee...
...Board of Economic Warfare) tries to damage the enemy's economics (by export-import policies), acts as an economics intelligence division for the Army & Navy. Head is Vice President Henry Agard Wallace; executive director, Milo Perkins...
...late, gets up around 7 a.m., breakfasts on a stool at the Broadmoor luncheonette, drives himself to work. In a day he sees from 20 to 30 callers, spends most of his time on the telephone. Once a week he lunches at the Raleigh Hotel with Leon Henderson and Milo Perkins, who runs the Economic Warfare Board. On those days, most of the power that drives the U.S. war effort is gathered at one table in the Raleigh's dining room. Other days, Don Nelson lunches at his desk...