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...TRADE THAW by Commerce Department promises to increase U.S. exports to Russia. Decision to grant license to Omni Products Corp. to ship $1,000,000 worth of plastic-pipe production machinery to Russia is seen as part of move by Commerce Secretary Frederick Mueller to encourage individual trade deals...
Your Aug. 3 article on Acting Secretary of Commerce Frederick H. Mueller was a very interesting introduction. However, he did not pull out from the National Association of Manufacturers in disagreement over labor policies. He did resign from another organization [the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers] as he was not in accord with certain of its new policies...
Married. Jack Westland, 54, Republican Congressman from Washington, who interrupted his 1952 campaign to win the National Amateur Golf Championship after trying seven times before; and Helen M. Geis, 42, assistant to new Secretary of Commerce Frederick H. Mueller; he for the second time, she for the first; in Washington...
...Mueller describes himself as "a small businessman at heart." and he spent most of his adult life, and some of his childhood, in small business. He was born in Grand Rapids in 1893, one year after his German-born father established a furniture factory there. At 13 he was put to work in the factory, 16 years later was its general manager. The family firm still employs fewer than 100 workers, but Fritz Mueller has spread its name and fame by being a prodigious civic-affairs man-president of the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers Guild, the local United Hospital Fund...
Outside the office, Mueller likes to read economics, enjoys bridge, plays golf in the 80s. In 1938, when his wife (who died last year) gave him a plane as a Christmas present, he qualified as a pilot, survived one crash and went on to organize the Grand Rapids Civil Air Patrol, still has a passion for flying, though he gave up piloting in 1951. Friends say Fritz Mueller looks younger than he did when he came to Washington in 1955. "I happen to enjoy the stimulation of challenge," said he, "and Washington is the place to find stimulation...