Word: agard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From $6,554,600,000 appropriated for agriculture since 1933, Congress has got precious little pork. This year, however, Secretary Henry Agard Wallace has had some pork to cut-$4,000,000 for four laboratories to study new outlets for U. S. crops. Last week, after weeding through more than 200 applications and bruising susceptible Congressional feelings, Secretary Wallace located the laboratories, one in each major U. S. crop region: Northern (corn, wheat, agricultural wastes) at Peoria, Ill.; Southern (cotton, sweet potatoes, peanuts) at New Orleans; Eastern (tobacco, milk products, apples, potatoes, vegetables) near Philadelphia; Western (wheat, potatoes, alfalfa, vegetables...
When day was done, it had spelled out a Maybe. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace called the outcome "a clear cut example of economic democracy." Of cotton farmers 82% voted their confidence in a quota-but 92% had been willing to try it for this year, when neither the U. S. surplus had piled up to the 10,000,000 bales, nor the world supply to the 51,000,000 bales reached last week. Only 56% of the tobacco farmers said Yes, less than the two-thirds necessary to invoke the quota, far less than the 86% who shouted...
...faced, downright George Peek, who had grown interested in export subsidies while he and his partner Hugh Johnson were trying to sell Moline plows. One piece of advice that seemed to crop up wherever Mr. Roosevelt turned was that as Secretary of Agriculture he should get Henry Agard Wallace...
...young man named Francis R. Wilcox last week sailed from Manhattan for Europe to do something about the prime paradox of U. S. farming-that farmers are poor because they produce so much. Vice President of Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., Francis Wilcox is one of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace's export experts...
Administrative Law, When the Court ruled that Secretary Henry Agard Wallace had not given a "full, fair, and open hearing" to a group of Kansas City Stockyards commission men before fixing the rates, they were directed to charge farmers for their services, Mr. Wallace angrily retorted that the Court had reversed a position it took in the same case two years ago. got Solicitor General Jackson to petition the Court for a rehearing (TIME, May 30). On its closing day the Court refused the rehearing, sharply denied the Secretary's "unwarranted" assertions that it had reversed itself, intimated that...