Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as Soapman Charles Luckman's high-powered voluntary save-food campaign was all fueled up and ready to go, Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson clomped a heavy foot on the brake. At a press conference in Chicago, tactless Clint Anderson casually dismissed meatless Tuesdays and eggless Thursdays as just "symbols of sacrifice." They were not intended "primarily to save food themselves," he said, but "to get the public in the frame of mind to conserve food." It was "like going to church on Sunday. . . . It's a reminder...
...Clint Anderson had been guilty of bad team-play; he had also poured cold water on the generous impulse of many a U.S. citizen. Nevertheless, there was a solid nut of truth in what he had said. Trying to save grain by starting with the consumer was like trying to lower prices through such retail price-cutting schemes as the ill-fated Newburyport plan (TIME, May 5). The only sensible place to start saving grain was where it came from-on the nation's farms...
...President Truman was trying to cope with the food shortage at hand (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Department of Agriculture planted the seed of a program to handle the abundance to come. Before a joint meeting of the House and Senate agricultural committees last week, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson presented the department's program to support farm prices after the wartime agricultural price-support law expires at the end of next year...
After a 75 mile per hour flight on Soldiers Field Road, the patrol car blocked the youth at Anderson Bridge. Deserting the auto, the driver struck out through Business School grounds, cutting across the grass area in front of Baker Memorial Library...
John Cogan, the first Crimson harrier to finish, wound up tenth, Bill Baker was eleventh, and Captain Huna Rosenfeld was twelfth. Ardan Albee--nineteenth--and John Anderson--twenty first--completed the Varsity scoring...