Word: wickard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turned over to Economic Czar James F. Byrnes the Presidential power to arbitrate disputes between Food Czar Claude R. Wickard and any agencies that might...
...long left 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...
Parse Parisius was reared on a Wisconsin farm, taught in Northwestern (Wis.) College, was a Lutheran pastor in Rice Lake, Wis., directed Farm Security work in Wisconsin, before becoming assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. He got to be associate director of Agricultural War Relations last June, when Claude Wickard set up the ineffectual Food Requirements Committee...
...Claude Wickard's Departmental reorganization was his second attempt to streamline his sprawling bureaus. Now, in generalities, he told of the work ahead: The Department is obligated to assure an adequate supply and efficient distribution of food to meet war and essential civilian needs. Waste must be curbed. The U.S. will continue to be the best-fed country in the world. The task is mostly a matter of managing huge U.S. food reserves and keeping housewives informed so they will keep in the program, said...
...best hope for Claude Wickard, in these still hazy areas of divided authority, was that the general tightening-up process now under way in Washington would clear the air. Citizens will be able to tell, six months hence, by looking in their market baskets...