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...Vice President had been casting about for an able, hard-boiled New Deal administrator. Last week he paid a visit to the bedside of 41-year-old Surplus Marketing Administrator Milo Perkins, now recuperating in his Maryland home from a serious abdominal operation. Friends of the Vice President said he had found...
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...
...Carroll County's-a horizon bounded by war but boundless with the promise of a better world. What he thought about now was not the rain clouds that might hurt the wheat but the dream of enough food for the whole world. In the words of his friend Milo Perkins...