Word: wickard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox was expected to stay; so were Secretaries Harold Ickes (Interior), Claude Wickard (Agriculture). With labor actually working under Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman, Mme. Frances Perkins was slated for an ouster from the Labor Department. Some labor leader, perhaps Teamsters' Dan Tobin, would take her place...
...President Roosevelt's cabinet appointments last summer included all but one of the following: 1. Stimson for Woodring (War). 2. Jackson for Murphy (Attorney-General). 3. Wickard for Wallace (Agriculture). 4. Walker for Farley (Postmaster General). 5. Knox for Edison (Navy...
...Henry Wallace's hornyhanded men was sandy-haired, chunky Claude Raymond Wickard, who grows wheat, corn, alfalfa, Aberdeen Angus cattle, Hampshire hogs on his farm in Carroll County, Ind. Mr. Wickard started in a minor administrative job, moved up until last year he became Under Secretary of Agriculture. Although he seldom got public credit, his was the mind behind many of the New Deal's agricultural programs. If any man did, he understood the mystic mathematics of agriculture. Few weeks ago he impressed his associates by forecasting the 1940 corn yield, hitting remarkably close to the later official...