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Grade-A Dietitian. To reduce the number of ifs in food, Washington last week got a new initial-agency, Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard got a new job, and the nation got a dietitian...
...extension; he protested loudly when U.S. destroyers were traded to Britain, when U.S. troops took over Iceland; he scoffed at the idea of an attack on the U.S. or that such an attack could cut off the nation from strategic materials. Last week, when Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard told a Senate subcommittee that 80,000,000 bushels of wheat could be made available for manufacture of synthetic rubber, angry Senator Wheeler wanted to know why the delay. "You've been asleep at the switch," shouted wide-awake Mr. Wheeler...
...deal in cotton which Commodity Credit Corp. made with Peru last week was not just another U.S. subsidy to a Good Neighbor. It was a step, in Claude Wickard's words, toward "the working out of world cotton production and marketing problems after the war." It foreshadowed a day when the growers of the Western Hemisphere, under U.S. leadership, will present a united front to the cotton markets of the rest of the world, and at the same time cooperate to reduce their own dependence on those markets. It was a step toward the internationalization...
...Government benefit payments in four years. Last month Oscar Johnston was appointed special representative of CCC as a cotton idea-man. He had planned to go to South America to close the Peruvian deal; but Peru sent two able representatives* to the U.S., who signed with Claude Wickard in short order. So Oscar stayed in Washington and meditated on cotton's war and post-war worlds...
Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard had the big job of feeding the United Nations; he was just outside the War Cabinet. The rest of Washington's onetime great had faded away; their jobs were no longer important or they had been tried by war and found wanting. Jesse Jones had lost much of his power, more of his prestige. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins had virtually no job left. Good, grey Cordell Hull, who returned to his desk this week after a long rest in Florida, had seen the world shrink smaller and smaller...