Word: agard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning the nation learned that Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace and a U. S. Deputy Marshal had been playing a midnight game of volley ball with a Federal court summons. In Baltimore a suit had been filed by Royal Farms Dairy questioning the constitutionality of AAA, naming Secretary Wallace a defendant. Unable to tag him in the District of Columbia, the process server had seized the opportunity of cornering the sleeping Secretary while he was rolling through Maryland on his way to Chautauqua. N. Y. to deliver an address...
United Feature released the first of 21 installments of Statesmanship and Religion, by Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace, which is to be published next May in book form by Round Table Press...
...products- has not provided prices as high as his, because farmers are still losing their homes in spite of the Farm Credit Administration, at Shenandoah, Iowa Milo Reno was enthusiastically cheered when he described the Agricultural Adjustment Act as "diabolical." He demanded the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. "Wallace's education and association with Wall Street have made him what he is today. Wallace would make a second-rate county agent if he knew a little more." Shenandoah's farmers paraded through the streets of the little country town, in solemn protest. At the fair...
...second time in a week, a publicized message from the President to somebody else was counted on to save the day (see p. 13). Up to an NBC microphone marched young, hard-driving Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace to read a letter President Roosevelt had written him "to make it very clear" that he "attached the greatest possible importance to the cotton adjustment campaign...
...Henry Agard Wallace got most of his farm relief ideas and a personal antipathy for Herbert Hoover from his father, whom he succeeded as editor of Wallaces' Farmer (now combined with the Iowa Homestead). In looks Son Wallace took more after his grandfather who founded that family publication. Like his father, he talks little and slowly. He has long studied the farm problem at an editorial desk. In 1928 he silently opposed Herbert Hoover; in 1932 he was red-hot for Roosevelt. Iowa Republicans were shocked by his political heresy, set it down to a family grudge dating back...