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the corn-hog problem.

I don't remember seeing him in that period at all, but I remember hearing about him, and only just by reference. The whole AAA problem was new. It was probably a man like Jerome Frank who spoke about Wickard. Jerome Frank was the chief counsel of the AAA. Chester Davis was the head of the AAA at that time and through him also I heard of Wickard. I don't think that he spoke of him in any way so that I had a clear picture of who he was or why he was there, but that I remember saying that among the other good men in the AAA was Claude Wickard. I remember Davis saying that he had some very good people in that organization, and that agricultural economics must be thought of. He said that you couldn't plan industrial economic changes without affecting agricultural conditions. The farmers had to buy the products of the manufacturers as well as sell their raw materials, in certain instance, to a manufacturing or processing program. That all made a difference. I remember Davis saying that the farmer was fundamentally interested in the revival of industry, first, because it increased the market for what he raised, second, because he was dependent upon the things that he purchased that were manufactured, and, third - and I remember remembering





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