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...Mexico. Democrat Clinton Presba Anderson, 64, seeking his third term, has borrowed the "experience" line from the Republicans (his campaign slogan: "Succeed with Seniority"), is carefully sidestepping the intense, local Democratic squabbles. His conservative opponent, William Frank Colwes (pronounced Call-wes), is tall (6 ft. 4 in.), grey and handsome, a civic leader and onetime Pontiac dealer who is scarcely known outside of Santa Fe, given little chance of upsetting Old Pol Clint Anderson...
Early Days. Born Oct. 23, 1895, son of a Swedish immigrant who stubbornly scratched an existence out of 80 South Dakota acres near Parker (pop. 1,148), Clinton Presba Anderson had made his way through his third year in college (Dakota Wesleyan, University of Michigan) by 1917. Then, after an Army doctor rejected him for officers' training camp upon finding a tubercular infection (Anderson has since suffered from diabetes, shingles in 1949, and a coronary in 1950), he went to New Mexico, spent nine months in a sanatorium, stayed on in the Southwest...
Windfall. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Presba Anderson beamed when he heard that 1.5 million tons of sugar had been discovered in Javanese ports. He hopes that the U.S. will get some 700,00 tons of the find. This was good news to housewives, although rationing is still scheduled to last till spring, but may be bad news to Cuban sugar growers. They are expected to arrive in Washington next week to demand a higher price for their 1946 crop...
Meanwhile, on a flood of laudatory oratory, in rode Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark, Postmaster General Robert Emmett Hannegan, Labor Secretary Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach, Agriculture Secretary Clinton Presba Anderson. This week's plans called for James Francis Byrnes to be sworn in as Secretary of State (see above). Washington gossips buzzed of further changes and more shake-ups to come...
history, incoming Secretary Clinton Presba Anderson was touring the West, talking prices with farmers, cautioning them against optimism, and trying to discover: i) why, despite heady crop reports, the U.S. still has a food shortage; 2) what government can do about...