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...secret was it that unofficial U. S. promises of economic aid had much to do with swinging other countries into line behind the Hull program. Back of the diplomatic front in Havana had worked sever al men who held the strings of the U. S. moneybags: President Milo Randolph Perkins of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., Earl N. Bressman, economic adviser to Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace, young Paul H. Nitze, adviser to President Roosevelt's $10,000-a-year cartelman, James Vincent Forrestal...
...pawn, a dean can check, sometimes stalemate a bishop. Bishop Manning, a High Churchman, and his Low-Church dean, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, frequently checked each other.* In 1929, Dean Robbins resigned, was succeeded by the Very Rev. Milo Hudson Gates, benevolent but bumbling. Last November Dean Gates died...
...began as plain Jessie Dermot, a Maine sea captain's daughter. She changed her name, and in 1890, when she was 19, made her stage debut. Ten years later she was the toast of Manhattan-in Ethel Barrymore's phrase, "a Venus de Milo with arms." Fifteen years later she was hobnobbing with Edward VII at Marienbad. Twenty years later, divorced from many-wived Actor Nat Goodwin, she was entertaining all England in her country house near London. After the war she built a $350,000 chateau at Juan-les-Pins, there entertained all Europe...
Died. The Very Rev. Dr. Milo Hudson Gates, 73, bumbling, benevolent dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, longtime foe of the gloomy cynicism of preachers; after a short illness; in Manhattan...
...meet objections of non-reliefers with low incomes, Milo Perkins revealed that Pottawatomie County, Okla., embracing Shawnee, will experiment with a modified scheme whereby all non-reliefers whose total family income is less than $19.50 per week may become eligible, after certification by their employers, the Chamber of Commerce and the banks, to buy the orange (paid) and thus get as a bonus blue (free) stamps with which to gnaw away at 1939 farm produce surpluses...