Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day he was summoned to lunch at the White House. Clint Anderson, who has sat in many a stud poker hand with Harry Truman, expected a friendly dressing down for going too far. Instead, the President said: "Clint, how would you like to be Secretary of Agriculture?" Said Anderson, later: "I almost swallowed my grapefruit...
Tall, dark and square of chin, Clint Anderson came to Congress four years ago after a career that included newspapering (Albuquerque Journal), selling insurance (Mountain States Casualty Co.), the presidency of Rotary International (1932), and administration of New Mexico's relief (1935). He is a gentleman farmer. Three years ago he bought the 935-acre Lazy V Cross ranch, five miles outside Albuquerque. There he has 450 acres of alfalfa, 135 milch cows, and 300 head of Rambouillet sheep...
...people talk to themselves in such stiff, critical language as Clinton Presba Anderson addressed to himself last week. Congressman Anderson of New Mexico, chairman of the Committee to Investigate Food Shortages, made a report on the sugar situation, a catalogue of Government blunders, devastating enough to make Secretary of Agriculture Anderson (see U.S. AT WAR) tremble in his boots at the inefficiency of his new department...
Some of the unvarnished facts which Clinton Presba Anderson dished up to Clinton Presba Anderson...
Congressman Anderson's chief recommendations to Secretary of Agriculture Anderson...