Word: agard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most interested spectator at President Roosevelt's conference with the Senators was a lean-faced, youngish man of 44 with a mop of dark brown hair just turning grey and deep thoughtful eyes-an economic idealist. Taciturn, he sat and listened most of the time. He was Henry Agard Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture and the official upon whose none-too-husky shoulders falls the job of administering the enormous powers buried deep in the Roosevelt farm bill. In his diffident way he had already given the Senate committee his views on this measure, designed to restore farm purchasing power...
Iowa State College estimates that by tincturing the nation's gasoline with 10% of alcohol made from surplus crops, an annual outlet would be provided for 600,000,000 bu. of corn. Henry Agard Wallace of Iowa, next Secretary of Agriculture (see p. 12) is credited with having first commended to President-elect Roosevelt legislation requiring a gasoline-alcohol mixture. James Maurice Doran, Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, has prepared a report on the project for Mr. Roosevelt...
Secretary of Agriculture. Henry Agard Wallace, 44, got into the Cabinet because of a family grudge against Herbert Hoover. His father was Harding's Secretary of Agriculture when the outgoing President was Harding's Secretary of Commerce. The elder Wallace's plans for farm relief were frustrated by the White House influence of Secretary Hoover. Secretary Wallace, a good Republican to the end, died in office (1924), lay in state in the White House East Room. This year the younger Wallace had his revenge when he helped turn Iowa Democratic...
...Wilson of the Montana State College of Agriculture & Mechanical Arts is generally regarded as author of the plan in its present form. His associates in perfecting it include Henry Ingraham. Harriman, now head of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Rogers R. Rogers of Prudential Insurance Co.; Henry Agard Wallace, Iowa farm publisher; Louis S. Clarke, president of Mortgage Bankers Association of Nebraska, and William Roy Ronald, editor of the Mitchell (S. Dak.) Evening Republican. As set forth in the "purely tentative" Jones bill, Domestic Allotment would work approximately as follows: Thirty days after enactment, the Secretary of Agriculture would...
...Senator-elect Clark (farm mortgages), Texas' Senator Connally (cotton prices). American Tobacco's George Washington Hill came to discuss upping tobacco prices. Rear Admiral Cary Grayson was told that the Roosevelt inaugural, which he will arrange, must be severely simple and inexpensive. The call of Henry Agard Wallace, bolting Republican farm publisher whose late father was Secretary of Agriculture under Harding and Coolidge, was construed as a Cabinet offer...