Word: wickard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Together. The peacemaker in the feud was Ancher Nelson, 49, a plain-spoken Minnesota Republican who was a farmer until he was appointed by President Eisenhower last year to replace onetime Agricultural Secretary Claude Wickard as boss of the Rural Electrification Administration. Shortly after he went into office, heads of the East Kentucky cooperative sought him out to plead their case in the long fight. The REA had authorized $28 million in loans to build a power plant at Ford and 798 miles of transmission line. But after giving the co-ops $15 million, the Government agency had stopped handing...
...more personal standing than his opponent. No orator but an accomplished handshaker, he brought in an array of outsiders to speak for him: Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, who was Johnson's candidate for President last year, and two former Secretaries of Agriculture, Charles Brannan and Claude Wickard. He also had a recorded endorsement from Adlai Stevenson. Johnson pitched it as a straight anti-Republican campaign: "Stop the Republican Recession...
...Choice. No such quota controls have been set on wheat since Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard fixed them for the 1943 crop. Benson had no choice. The 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, still in effect, says that the wheat-marketing restriction machinery must be thrown into gear when the wheat supply reaches the "crisis point." That point is keyed to the prospects for domestic consumption and export of wheat. When this year's bumper crop is in, the total supply is expected to be 17 billion bushels,† the greatest on record, 28% above the crisis point...
Last week the President also: ¶Nominated Minnesota's Lieutenant Governor Ancher Nelsen, 48, to be Rural Electrification Administrator, replacing Claude Wickard who resigned by request. A rawboned, farm-bred son of Danish immigrants, Nelsen is a longtime partisan of the farmer...
...CLAUDE WICKARD resigned as Rural Electrification Administrator. A Hoosier hog farmer who went to Washington in 1933 to help man the old Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Wickard was one of the promoters of the early New Deal's pig-killing experiment, worked closely with Henry Wallace, rose to Secretary of Agriculture (1940-45). When Harry Truman chose Clinton P. Anderson as Secretary, Wickard was taken care of at REA. The law creating REA specifies that its administrator shall be appointed for ten years. With three years of his ten-year term still before him, Wickard at first resisted the request...