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While the three new Cabinet members were generally unknown, they had no known disqualifications. Harry Truman, who does not believe in one-man government, told them that they would have unquestioned authority in their fields. Clint Anderson, for instance, also becomes War Food Administrator and will thus be the nation's absolute food czar in fact as well as in name. Washington dopesters thought it only a matter of time until WLB, NLRB and the National Mediation Board would be put under the new Secretary of Labor...
Along with the new Postmaster General, Bob Hannegan, the new members will take office with the start of the new fiscal year, July 1-except Clint Anderson, who will assume his new job as soon as Claude Wickard can be confirmed as Rural Electrification Administrator...
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...
...when he was making his number 55 famous as the scourge of opposing linemen. One of Coach Dick Harlow's speediest, halfbacks, Torbie was the only member of his class to win his letter as a sophomore, and the only one to start on the eleven that smashed Clint Frank and Yale's hopes for an undefeated season, one November afternoon of 1937 when Harvard Stadium saw Crimson...