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...flood relief committee (see p. 12) learned that thousands of dozens of eggs were at its disposal for feeding the destitute. These two items of good news for egg-eaters were the complementary results of a single Government action to stabilize the egg market. Responsible for both was Henry Agard Wallace's Surplus Commodities Corp., an AAAffiliate. Most important natural factor in determining the price of eggs is the laying behavior of the hen. In spring, the big egg-laying season, eggs are ordinarily plentiful and cheap. In autumn and winter, hens are less productive, more storage eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Egg Stabilization | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Ford & Future. Republican Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick has been experimenting with soybeans on the Chicago Tribune's farm at Yorkville, Ill., astounded his readers last spring by expressing approval of Democratic Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace when the Department sponsored a laboratory soybean farm at the University of Illinois. The No. 1 U. S. soybean man is Henry Ford. His reason: "If we want the farmer to be our customer, we must find a way to be his customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Little Honorable Plant | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

There, in one brief statement, is the philosophy of Henry Agard Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture and one of the most outstanding of the New Deal thinkers. Secretary Wallace will defend and illuminate on this statement when he addresses the Round Table on Agriculture at the Princeton-Harvard-Yale Conference on Public Affairs to be held at Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallace Will Defend Belief That High Prices Are Only Means of Providing Farmers Fair Return, at Princeton | 4/29/1936 | See Source »

...Department of Agriculture Dr. Mordecai Joseph Brill Ezekiel stands for pure intellect. Mild mannered, younger looking than his 36 years, he sits in a large office and thinks. In his mind, apt in higher mathematics, are formulated many of the more abstract ideas found in the speeches of Henry Agard Wallace, for Dr. Ezekiel is Economic Adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture. From this mind came last week a project which should make Dr. Francis Everett ("$200 per month") Townsend look to his reputation as an innovator of social security. Not only did Dr. Ezekiel propose a monthly income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: $2,500 a Year | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...practical expert on tobacco and Henry Cantwell Wallace sat in the Secretary's chair. By last month pink-cheeked, grey-haired John B. Hutson had become not only the AAAuthority on tobacco but also on rice, sugar and peanuts and his old boss's son, Henry Agard Wallace, sat in the Secretary's office. Last week John B. Hutson was given AAA control over a fifth crop?the common, or Irish potato?and irate farmers throughout the land had at him as never before in his quiet respectable 45 years. Among the first communications that came before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Potato Control | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

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