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...Department of Agriculture Dr. Mordecai Joseph Brill Ezekiel stands for pure intellect. Mild mannered, younger looking than his 36 years, he sits in a large office and thinks. In his mind, apt in higher mathematics, are formulated many of the more abstract ideas found in the speeches of Henry Agard Wallace, for Dr. Ezekiel is Economic Adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture. From this mind came last week a project which should make Dr. Francis Everett ("$200 per month") Townsend look to his reputation as an innovator of social security. Not only did Dr. Ezekiel propose a monthly income...
...Ezekiel proposal, published in book form with the title $2,500 a Year* gave little comfort to Townsendites. As a theorist Dr. Ezekiel can think circles around Dr. Townsend, and he devoted but three pages to a systematic demolition of his rival's ideology. On sounder economic ground he reared his own plans. He proposed no guaranteed bounty for idle pensioners but a better ordered economic society in which even the poorest could earn a living some 60% better than the average U. S. citizen...
...Davis, whom the elder Wallace originally brought to Washington to work on the McNary-Haugen plan, is now Son Wallace's chief AAA man. Those two and their aides- Publicity Man Alfred D. Stedman. AAA Wheat Director George E. Farrell, Assistant Secretary Milburn L. Wilson. Economic Adviser Mordecai Ezekiel-are the executors of what Son Wallace thinks his father would have liked...
Drought and AAA slashed the 1934 corn crop to 56% its normal volume, with a relative decrease in pork production. According to Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, Department of Agriculture economist, pork prices have risen so high that a national "consumers' strike" is now on. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics foresees still higher prices for chickens, eggs...
...advice of his director, Sam Taylor, to make the picture without his customary comedy inventions. Less dependent on its star than previous Lloyd products but almost equally hilarious. The Cat's Paw should win the plaudits of the Legion of Decency without boring its opponents. Typical shot: Ezekiel Cobb, when he tries to use a telephone for the first time, talking in it without removing the receiver...