Word: wickard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home front, long neglected, another kind of crisis clamored for attention. Food shortages were a national bellyache. Meat and butter rationing had begun. Farmers begged and pleaded for help (see p. 12). Franklin Roosevelt had "solved" the food problem just three months ago, by transforming Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard into a Food Czar. Now he gave Wickard's power to hardheaded Chester C. Davis...
...will plant 279,000,000 acres-10,000,000 more than last year. They will plant 20% more peas and beans (good meat substitutes), 10% more soybeans, 21% more peanuts and flaxseed for oils, 14% more potatoes, 6% more corn to fatten their cattle and pigs. Food Administrator Claude Wickard had never dared hope for such figures. Nor had the nation...
Chester Davis, the new farm-food administrator, bosses 42,000 Dept. of Agriculture employees, but his authority practically funs out there. His organization is a box within Secretary Wickard's box and his power is shelved apart from the War Manpower Commission, the WPB, and the OPA, which all share in agricultural administration...
...crippling decentralization goes even further. Another agency under Prentiss Brown rules farm prices. The only insurance that Davis will be just another electron flying around the nucleus of the OPA is the possibility of his referring disputes to stabilization director Byrnes. Function stands apart from power, for Wickard is a member of the Economic Stabilization Board while Davis is not. Wickard continues to represent the United States on the Combined Food Board although Davis needs information on lend-lease food aid to manage production and distribution. Overburdening executives is one thing; halving authority is another. If active organization and comprehensive...
Married. Ann Louise Wickard, 20, daughter of Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard; and Naval Ensign Jean Vincent Pickart, 23, of Gary, Ind.; in Washington...