Word: milos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their toasts and speeches were exceptionally friendly because EDB's Milo Perkins had finally won his fight to bring the Latin Republics into the U.S.'s own program of scarcity manipulation, instead of insulting them with paper priorities that turned out to be no good...
Stocky, slit-eyed, tweedy Milo Perkins is a rare New Deal exhibit: a hard-driving businessman who left a thriving business to take a modest job in a Government bureau. He did it because he is an evangelist at heart. Unlike many a cynical Government worker, Milo Perkins really believes in the New Deal credo that "nobody should go hungry...
Wisconsin-born, he was a successful maker of gunny sacks in Texas, a keen jute speculator, when the urge to go to Washington seized him in 1934. It happened one night in a Chicago hotel. Milo Perkins sat down, wrote a letter to Henry Wallace, whom he had never met: "From childhood I have wanted to live in the world so that I could . . . leave it happier because I had worked in it. . . . I am going to throw my whole energies into working for the principles of the New Deal. . . . It occurs to me that you might have just...
Henry Wallace did. Then Secretary of Agriculture, he found a place for Milo Perkins as his assistant. Perkins did well. One day in 1939 Wallace called him up to talk about the Surplus Marketing Administration. Said Wallace: "Milo, I want you to come over and take charge of this thing and straighten it out." Milo has been there ever since. It was his idea to distribute surplus food by issuing food stamps to families on relief. Since the Lend-Lease Act went through, he has been buying food supplies for Britain...
...straight-thinking administrator and a trusted friend of the Vice President, Milo Perkins is the obvious man to take hold of the Economic Defense Board and make it work. He will have the help of Princeton Economist Winfield William Riefler. As a part-time adviser, Riefler will be charged with the special job of planning for a post-war economy, but Milo Perkins will be dealing with far more immediate matters: further embargoes on shipments to Japan and Vichy, trade with the Free French in Central Africa, control over frozen Axis credits in the U.S., economic relations with Latin America...