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Claude R. Wickard, this new food-conservation program has been named the Becker Plan by enthusiastic fish and wildlife directors...
Strange are the consequences which will follow Secretary Wickard's modest proposal to solve the meat shortage by limiting everybody to a uniform ration of two and a half pounds a week per person...
Secretary Wickard spoke of his plan as a 25% reduction in meat-eating. But people with incomes over $5,000 normally eat almost four pounds of meat a week. For them his program will mean not a 25% reduction...
...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...