Word: milos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barrymore once summed up his married life: "When archeologists discover the missing arms of the Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves...
There was ample reason to worry New Dealers, besides the North African "expediency" that had outraged them already. Out with Wallace went his executive director Milo Perkins, an Administration stalwart, inventor of the famed New Deal food-stamp plan. If Perkins' firing had not been a certainty before, it became definite last week when he made a pep talk to 1,700 BEW employes and one uninvited reporter (Virginia Pasley, of the Washington Times-Herald). Henry Wallace kept mum and tended the corn in his Washington victory garden. But Milo Perkins told the BEW workers that Mr. Wallace...
...hush-hush Interdepartmental Committee on International Aviation, of which CABoss Pogue is a member and Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. is chairman. Other members : Artemus Gates and Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretaries for Air of Navy and War; Wayne Chatfield Taylor, Under Secretary of Commerce; and Milo Perkins, executive director of the Board of Economic Warfare. Their report will probably be made public next September, when an Anglo-American conference on postwar aviation will be held in Washington...
...Notable was the fact that the one agency to come through with a whole skin was Henry Wallace's pet bureau, the Board of Economic Warfare, whose head, Milo Perkins, has been sedulous in heeding Congressional advice and complaints and in explaining clearly and sensibly to Congress just what he is trying...
Chairman of the committee will be brainy, sartorially elegant Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State. Other members: Herbert H. Lehman, Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (Lend-Lease), Milo Perkins (Board of Economic Warfare), Henry Morgenthau (Treasury...