Word: agard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Agard Wallace's life was not a singularly joyous one. Nor, despite exceptional intelligence and roots planted deep in Iowa soil, had it always been governed by common sense. Yet when the former Vice President died in a Danbury, Conn., hospital last week at 77, consumed by a rare, wasting neuromuscular ailment known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, his ideas and ideals had long since been woven into American life, his grand illusions all but forgotten. In the 17 years since he campaigned for the presidency as a candidate and captive of the Communist-dominated Progressive Party, Wallace...
From an unexpected and unlikely quarter, Richard Nixon last week got some help in his effort to persuade the voters that Jack Kennedy's farm program would bring higher food prices for consumers and entangling red tape for farmers. The helping voice: Henry Agard Wallace, 72, Agriculture Secretary under Franklin Roosevelt, Vice President during F.D.R.'s third term, presidential candidate of the Red-tinged Progressive Party in 1948. Said Wallace: Kennedy's "parity of income" for farmers (TIME, Oct. 3) would push up retail food prices by an average of 25%-the same figure that Nixon...