Word: wickard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shape of the order was nearly determined at week's end. The President planned to establish a new Economic Stabilization Board: Price Boss Leon Henderson, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, War Labor Board Chairman William H. Davis, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner S. Eccles, Budget Director Harold Smith and probably an outside chairman as yet unnamed. The board would administer price control, formulate wage policy, make tax recommendations...
...Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones, once the moneybags of the war effort, had his wings clipped after the Rubber Scandal. Secretary of State Cordell Hull is still the good, grey man of international diplomacy, but the day of grey diplomacy has faded with Pearl Harbor. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard is close to the war effort, with his responsibility for feeding the United Nations, but not quite...
Thus Administrator Wickard, much in the same tone as Leon Henderson (see col 3.), said in effect that meat prices must drop considerably below this week's level. This was a further clue that the Administration is leading up to a new anti-inflation program that will provide subsidies, lower farm price ceilings and some kind of wage adjustment. On one front peace had been made, but Wickard threw down the gauntlet for another feud with the farm bloc...
...real dirt farmer, Wickard operates 380 acres near Camden, Ind., where he raises hogs, corn, wheat...
...farmers Claude Wickard was saying the same thing (see col. 2). Preacher Henderson and Wickard at last seemed to be taking texts out of the same book...