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...crop year promises to be curious. Last week, while outgoing Secretary of Agriculture Claude Raymond Wickard was releasing one of the most optimistic June crop forecasts...
...appointments were generally applauded. He rid himself of the three weakest members of the existing cabinet: Wickard, Biddle and Madam Perkins. Into their places moved New Mexico's Congressman Clinton P. Anderson, 49, as Secretary of Agriculture; Texas' Tom Clark, 45, as Attorney General; and Washington's onetime Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach, 50, as Secretary of Labor...
Along with the new Postmaster General, Bob Hannegan, the new members will take office with the start of the new fiscal year, July 1-except Clint Anderson, who will assume his new job as soon as Claude Wickard can be confirmed as Rural Electrification Administrator...
...Senator Guy Gillette is slated to succeed Claude Wickard as Secretary of Agriculture...
...position of Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard was regarded as uncertain. It was thought certain that Navy Secretary Jimmy Forrestal, one of the nation's ablest officers, would stay on the job, as would Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes and Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace, from whom Truman won the Vice Presidential nomination in 1944's fierce intraparty battle...