Word: wickard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American farm revolution was set last week for Sept. 15. Beginning that day, blunt Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard will appear first in Salt Lake City, then in Chicago, New York and Memphis to tell the farmers of each section their role in the greatest food-production program ever conceived...
...asked its farmers for more cotton and more wheat. Today, Claude Wickard's whole idea is to grow less cotton, less wheat and more food. He wants to make dairy products, poultry and vegetables basic crops, as important in the nation's economy as cotton, wheat, tobacco, corn and rice. He wants an over abundance of them because he is satisfied that the national income will grow up to buy it. He sees a chance to put the U.S. on a proper diet for the first time in all its history. He believes that "food will...
...mostly Claude Wickard hopes to cut cotton and wheat production by waving before the farmers' eyes the prospect of high prices for food crops. Before he starts his trip, production goals for 1942 will be announced. Roughly, the U.S. farmer will be asked...
Other members: Secretary of State Cordell Hull (see col. 2), Henry Morgenthau (Treasury), Henry L. Stimson (War), Frank Knox (Navy), Claude Wickard (Agriculture), Jesse H. Jones (Commerce) and the Attorney General of the United States (when that vacancy is filled). Henry Wallace will appoint an executive director to assist him, was expected to name 44-year-old Winfield William Riefler, New Deal economist, a professor at Princeton University since...
...celebration provided good bucolic fare. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Raymond Wickard spoke from Washington, then an announcer in Indiana described the Secretary's Carroll County farm while Wickard livestock supplied a grunting, snuffling obbligato. From Indiana the program wandered to a Georgia vegetable garden, a poultry house in California, a wheat field in North Dakota. As usual the show was neither cute nor corny. It aimed to tell the farmer about his business, got down to earth as speedily as a gopher...