Word: agard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philosophers' Ring. As farmers watched their growing cotton, wheat, piglets, so the Department of Agriculture watched the progress of its amendments. Chief of those crop watchers in Washington was the overlord of AAA, Henry Agard Wallace, a Democratic Secretary of Agriculture, son of a Republican Secretary of Agriculture, trying his philosophic best to reach the ends his late father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, sought in vain a dozen years...
Capitol guards, engaged in clearing the corridors outside the hall of the House of Representatives for President Roosevelt, stopped a hay-seedy-looking individual who, questioned closely, fumbled through his pockets for credentials, proved he was Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace...
Chief Walter Gilbert Campbell of the Food & Drug Administration drew a long face last week as he rounded off his annual report to his chief, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. Other members of Mr. Wallace's vast staff devise and distribute poisons to kill pests which infest fruits and vegetables. Mr. Campbell's grumps last week were largely due to the fact that his men must spend one-third of their time making sure that food raisers scrub from their harvests the insecticides other branches of the Department of Agriculture lavishly hand...
...dictatorship does everybody or nobody vote. Normally, a shade more than 50% of the U. S. citizenry exercises its suffrage privilege. Even in the presidential landslide years of 1928 and 1932, just over 60% of qualified voters went to the polls. But lean, Lincolnesque Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace is seldom satisfied with any result short of the ideal. He did not hide his disappointment over the result of AAA's corn-hog vote, first substantial figures on which were released in Washington last week...
Though to many a stanch Republican Henry Agard Wallace is a fire-breathing radical, he thinks of himself as a "middleaged, middle-course" person. New Frontiers, written with enthusiastic garrulity, is an argumentatively factual account-rendered of his stewardship so far, his hopes, plans for the future. He believes the new social machinery, such as AAA, "just as important" as the invention of the automobile. Chief objective of U. S. government in the next ten years, says he, should be "so to manage the tariff, and the money system, to control railroad interest rates; and to encourage price and production...