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...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's attack on Jones was what "any red-blooded American" would do when he turned over a rock and saw "slimy things crawling" under...
Henry Wallace kept mum to all comers and callers, at week's end was invited to the White House...
...Mum Navy. This week, as the Casablanca crisscrossed Puget Sound with happy Henry Kaiser aboard, the engine ran superbly. Smoothly, the $7,000,000 Casablanca did better than its designed speed, controlled nicely at slow speeds, came through perfectly on a crash stop...
Navy men aboard kept mum. But Maritime Commission's vice chairman, Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, who was also aboard, beamed at the ship's performance. The Navy has stated its objections to the ships: too slow for most combat jobs, too short to launch their planes on calm days, except with catapults. But the ships are fast enough to keep up with merchant convoys, to spread an umbrella of planes over them to fight U-boats. On their ability to do that well, the President and Kaiser have gambled. Only the Battle of the Atlantic can give...
...Administrator Newton is busily getting all the facts, wisely keeping mum. Favorite Newton nugget: "There's nothing like a fact. When I was trying criminal cases, I found that a good, old-fashioned fact could stop even Max Steuer (famed Manhattan trial lawyer...