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...unknown for Vice President. His name was not unknown: a Henry Wallace has been in the news since Grandfather Henry advised Theodore Roosevelt on matters agricultural, and Father Henry served Harding and Coolidge as their Republican Secretary of Agriculture. But after seven New Deal years in the headlines, Henry Agard Wallace was a stranger even to the delegates who sourly put him on their ticket in Chicago...
Actually Henry Agard Wallace is not so much a dirt farmer as a cloud mystic. He is also one of the few mystics who turn their oddities to practical account. He once subsisted for five days on cottonseed meal, soybean oil and cauliflower-not in the interest of dietary flagellation, but in a quest for cheap foods. He has passed many a night hour lying on the ground, looking at the stars. Purpose: to check a complex theory about the relation of the heavenly bodies to weather cycles. He is equally fond of integral calculus and boomerang throwing. Both have...
...social splurge in Washington, D. C. was the joint debut at the Carlton Hotel of Mary Margaret Jackson and Jean Browne Wallace, 18-year-old daughters of Solicitor General Robert Houghwout (pronounced Howett) Jackson and Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. Carrying bouquets given them by President and Mrs. Roosevelt, the debutantes for two straight hours hand-shook Washington socialites, Government wigs and hangers-on. Also reigning in another section of the hotel drawing room were the fathers, who did not cease to beam all afternoon. Gurgled Washington Post Society Pundit Hope Ridings Miller: "More men-young and older-than...
Comedy of Ignorance. Bewildered was Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. He knew that no pipsqueak hoarding could clean out the much greater involuntary hoards of farm commodities which he has long tried to dispose of. At week's end, after columnists and editorial writers had failed to shout down the buying rush, he slouched up to the microphone and over a nationwide network called a halt: "Since last Monday," he said, "housewives have been conducting runs on grocery stores in the same manner as depositors used to conduct runs on banks...
Perhaps weary Henry Agard Wallace "toiling like Tantalus in Hades" is merely logrolling; or maybe the pork suspended above him and the slush about him disappear as he is about to grasp them...