Word: milos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...