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...Setup. Henry's room was already full of jobs and responsibilities. The President's old scheme to make the Vice-Presidency into a job of work (TIME, Nov. 11) had been carried out almost too thoroughly. Henry Agard Wallace had a Constitutional job presiding over the Senate, he had a bigger second job, never visioned by the Founding Fathers, which might end in his presiding over the world: chairman of the Economic Defense Board...
...last week followed Winston Churchill's example and set up an inner War Cabinet. At its head he put the man who is his titular assistant, but whose only job traditionally is to preside over the Senate and wait around in case the President dies: Vice President Henry Agard Vallace...
...work out plans to improve this situation was the job of the first National Nutrition Conference. Chairman: Federal Security Administrator Paul Vories McNutt. Fellow laborers: Vice President Henry Agard Wallace, who has an expert's knowledge of vitamins. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Raymond Wickard, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Nutritionists Russell Morse Wilder of the Mayo Clinic and Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia University...
...Heard Vice President Henry Agard Wallace cast his first vote. Two months ago Wallace was at lunch when the Senate tie-voted, thus killing an amendment which would have permitted Argentine canned beef (and hemisphere good will) to enter the U.S. Religiously Mr. Wallace has sat through hours of dull sessions ever since, aching to get even. Last week his moment came. A "comma amendment" (meaning "minor") had been overlooked in hasty consideration of an appropriation bill. Mr. Wallace called for the ayes and nays. In the sleepy Senate no one answered. Like a flash the Vice President declared...
...first time since he became Vice President, Henry Agard Wallace last week put on the toga of statesmanship to speak...