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...Manpower Commissioner, the President chose Manpower Commissioner (since April) Paul Vories McNutt. For Food Administrator he chose Claude R. Wickard, who, as Secretary of Agriculture, has been something of a food administrator all along. But to both men he gave important new powers-perhaps enough authority really to do the job this time...
...well Paul McNutt and Claude Wickard would do with their new powers (see below), only time would tell. To some Administration critics, it seemed ironic that the men under whom manpower and food situations had steadily worsened, should now emerge as the czars. But the new setup, if not perfect, was far tighter and better than anything tried before in World War II. Much of the divided authority which had kept Paul McNutt and Claude Wickard busy debating instead of working was now clearly and finally determined. How well they would do the job was now, for the first time...
When Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard got his new powers over food last week, he was traveling up & down the country trying to whip up enthusiasm for his 1943 production goals* without much success. Barring a miracle, Claude Wickard's fellow farmers (he raises corn and hogs in Indiana) did not see how they could keep production steady, much less increase...
...typified one aspect of the New Deal dilemma: it lacked the vitality of leadership needed to throw off its ills. To practical politicians in the Democratic Party, most New Deal bigwigs had become anathema. Such good New Dealers as Henry Morgenthau, Price Boss Leon Henderson and Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard, who were in the bitter struggles of organizing the nation for war, had left much of their popularity and most of their political blood on the battlefield-and had won no administrative medals...
...recommendations, which named no specific candidates, was made by War Production chief Donald M. Nelson with the approval of Secretary of Agriculture Clande R. Wickard, it was understood...