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...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...
...orders from Washington, soft-spoken U. S. Agricultural Attache Lloyd Steers of the Berlin Embassy voiced a friendly ultimatum: The U. S. cannot be expected to enter agreements for next year unless guarantees are given that pledges will be kept by all, not merely by the blighted. In Washington Mordecai Ezekiel, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace's lean-jawed economic adviser, declared: "We are going to have virtually no wheat to sell abroad next year...
...Louis Browns. Most expensive is the Chicago Cubs' young Outfielder George Stainback, bought for $75,000 from Los Angeles. The Philadelphia Phillies' Out fielder Henry Oana is the only Hawaiian in the league. The New York Yankees have Floyd Newkirk whose pitching hand, like that of famed Mordecai Brown, onetime Chicago Cub, has only three fingers. Luckiest rookie was Glenn Chapman of the Dodgers who, on the first day of practice at Orlando, hit the first ball ever pitched to him by a big-leaguer for a home-run. Considered ablest last week, when most of their confr...
...world knows by now the top men in President Roosevelt's Brain Trust -George F. Warren, James Harvey Rogers, Rexford Guy Tugwell, Mordecai Ezekiel, John Dickinson, Francis B. Sayre, Willard L. Thorp, Isador Lubin, Milburn L. Wilson, William I. Myers. Below this top layer of the Brain Trust, however, are scores & scores of young unknowns in almost every department of the Government. Underlings on the payroll who rarely if ever see their President, they do most of the New Deal spade work for which their superiors in the spotlight get the credit. Some are assistant professors with new economic...