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...Frente is making impressive preparations: guerrilla training camps in Florida and Guatemala, arms-carrying PT boats that average a trip a week to Cuba, an air group of some 80 flyers who reportedly fly out of the mystery field at Retalhuleu in Guatemala and the inactive U.S. Marine Corps Opa-Locka airbase in Florida...
...dutifully followed him from billet to domestic billet-Washington, Ottumwa, Iowa, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore, methodically getting a new job, buying secondhand furniture and setting up house in each post. While he was on duty in the Pacific, she lived in a boardinghouse in San Francisco, worked as an OPA economist. At war's end, Lieut. Commander Nixon and his lady were stationed in Baltimore. Pat was pregnant, and the future was uncertain. Then a now-famous telegram came from Whittier: a "Committee of One Hundred" active Republicans wanted to know if Dick would be interested in running...
Before entering government service, Bowles started a successful advertising agency. His important posts in Washington included OPA Administrator and Economic Stabilization Director...
During the early war years Galbraith took charge of price controls for OPA, and later became director of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey and of economic affairs in the former enemy countries for the State Department. He then spent several years with Fortune magazine and in 1949 came to Harvard...
...sold out to be vice president of the University of Chicago, they had run their billings up to $15 million a year. Bowles hung around until 1941, making more money; then he too gave in to the longing for a larger life of public service, headed up the Connecticut OPA, later became Franklin Roosevelt's OPAdministrator. Though apart in business, Benton & Bowles remained a close political team; in 1949 Bowles, then governor of Connecticut, appointed Benton, seasoned by two years as an Assistant Secretary of State, to the U.S. Senate...