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...Georgia Board of Regents with political stooges; 2) made himself a member of the board; 3) fired Dean Walter D. Cocking (of the university's College of Education), President Marvin S. Pittman (of Georgia State Teachers College) and others because they were "furriners" (Pittman is Mississippi-born, Cocking Iowa-born) and alleged "nigger-lovers...
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...
...Iowa-born Carroll Barnes studied at Washington's Corcoran School of Art, later held a scholarship at Michigan's famed Cranbrook Academy. He got the idea for his heroic-sized statue from a Los Angeles critic who had seen a smaller, 4 ft. 6 in. Paul Bunyan by Barnes at an exhibition, thought it might look well four times as big. His opportunity came when he heard that a sequoia tree standing on the slopes of the Sierras had been weakened in a Mt. Whitney hurricane, and could be cut down. Barnes trucked an 18-ft. section...
...Nazis' Iowa-born Fred Kaltenbach, a Berlin standby, referred thrice last week to "The Axis powers or Japan"-a designing slip, part of the elaborately subtle campaign of insinuation that a worried Hitler is open to a deal against his Far Eastern partner...
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...