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Last week the tempo of life in the U. S. was stepped up. In all fields except Congress, where the draft was still debated, there was action and lots of it-political, diplomatic, military. There was action in Elwood, Ind., where Wendell Willkie accepted the Republican nomination for President. There was action in Washington. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace resigned to campaign for the Vice-Presidency. There were resignations, new appointments. And there was the action of President Roosevelt, who announced at his press conference that he had sent observers to watch the Nazi attack on Great Britain, and that...
...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...
Last week, at Elwood, Ind., Wendell Willkie accepted the Republican nomination for President of the U. S. Bigger than the story of his acceptance was the story of the crowd at Elwood that swarmed in, 200,000 strong, to make the biggest political rally in U. S. history-three times as big as the one that heard Alf Landon's acceptance, twice as big as the one that heard Franklin Roosevelt accept in 1936 at Philadelphia's Franklin Field. On the quiet Indiana town that normally holds 10,000 people the crowd moved like some vast, unregimented, good...
...writes many a memo for him and his counselors, and is already swatting at Wendell Willkie. Public relations adviser to the President is ardent New Dealer Lowell Mellett, onetime Scripps-Howard editor, newest member of the group, notable because like Wendell Willkie he is a native of Elwood, Ind...
...Ponts have contracted to build and operate a $25,000,000, Government-owned powder plant near Charlestown, Ind. Capacity: 200,000 Ib. per day. "This plant will be completed and in operation within ten months. In 1917 the contract for construction of the first powder plant was not signed until seven months after we had entered...