Word: agard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Agriculture Dr. Mordecai Joseph Brill Ezekiel stands for pure intellect. Mild mannered, younger looking than his 36 years, he sits in a large office and thinks. In his mind, apt in higher mathematics, are formulated many of the more abstract ideas found in the speeches of Henry Agard Wallace, for Dr. Ezekiel is Economic Adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture. From this mind came last week a project which should make Dr. Francis Everett ("$200 per month") Townsend look to his reputation as an innovator of social security. Not only did Dr. Ezekiel propose a monthly income...
...were responsible for a grain crop up 80% over drought-stricken 1934, for cattle which, fattened on sweet lush grass, were selling $2 per cwt. higher in Chicago than a year ago. In Editor & Publisher, which issued a special supplement full of good farm news. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace estimated that this year's farm cash income would top last year's $6,200,000,000 by $500,000,000, a little more than half that of the 1920's, but close to twice that of 1932. And from the State Fairs themselves rang a jubilant affirmation...
...practical expert on tobacco and Henry Cantwell Wallace sat in the Secretary's chair. By last month pink-cheeked, grey-haired John B. Hutson had become not only the AAAuthority on tobacco but also on rice, sugar and peanuts and his old boss's son, Henry Agard Wallace, sat in the Secretary's office. Last week John B. Hutson was given AAA control over a fifth crop?the common, or Irish potato?and irate farmers throughout the land had at him as never before in his quiet respectable 45 years. Among the first communications that came before...
...HENRY AGARD WALLACE: A public servant of deep faith and high integrity who finds courage to attempt an uncharted journey in our modern wilderness...
...South Carolinian had pledged "we have come to praise and not to condemn" when the nation's No. 1 Farmer stood up to address "the finest farm meeting I ever attended." Amid a storm of happy hog-calls, that agricultural editor and corn-raising expert, Henry Agard Wallace, began by proposing the "reelection of Theodore Roosevelt." Recovering the fumble, the Secretary of Agriculture blushingly explained that "in 1912 I was a Bull Mooser myself." Any forensic slip the Secretary might have made was forgotten when he began assailing "the big boys who want to take away our processing...