Word: hendrickson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undone, Food Czar Claude Wickard last week put the Department of Agriculture on a wartime basis and picked two energetic lieutenants to help him. The job: to end doodling over a food situation that is rapidly getting out of hand. The men: big, shaggy, 38-year-old Roy Frederick Hendrickson, who became Director of Food Distribution; tall, sober, 47-year-old Herbert William ("Parse") Parisius, the new Director of Food Production...
Both men have had wider Departmental and executive experience than their boss. Roy Hendrickson (Iowa-born, Minnesota-educated and Associated Press-trained) in his nine years with the Department has been director of personnel, head of the Surplus Marketing Administration and chief of the Agricultural Marketing Administration. As AMAdministrator he has bought as much as 550 million pounds of foodstuffs a month worth $114 million for Lend-Lease, Red Cross, domestic distribution and reserve stockpiles...
...well do Roy Hendrickson and Parse Parisius know that the 1943 food problem will not be solved by exhortation and lament, but by painfully undoing the blunders which have reduced the "best-fed nation" to conditions in some places bordering on a food panic. Evidence of how badly someone had blundered...
Growers and canners who gathered in Washington to hear lumbering Roy Hendrickson, Surplus Marketing Administrator, outline the Government's plans, agreed that they can do the job if they have to. All they asked was assurance that the Government would really take all surpluses off their hands, not leave them holding...
Secretary Wickard last week picked big, blond, Iowa-born Roy F. Hendrickson to head the Surplus Marketing Administration, charged with the actual purchasing of food for Britain. A onetime newspaperman who quit writing farm news in order to go to work for the Government's subsistence homesteads program, the new administrator is typical of many a departmental expert who has grown up under the New Deal. He was only 29, with eight newspaper years behind him (he left the Sioux City, Iowa Tribune when he won a Buick in a lottery), when he joined the Government, soon became Director...