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...were responsible for a grain crop up 80% over drought-stricken 1934, for cattle which, fattened on sweet lush grass, were selling $2 per cwt. higher in Chicago than a year ago. In Editor & Publisher, which issued a special supplement full of good farm news. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace estimated that this year's farm cash income would top last year's $6,200,000,000 by $500,000,000, a little more than half that of the 1920's, but close to twice that of 1932. And from the State Fairs themselves rang a jubilant affirmation...
...HENRY AGARD WALLACE: A public servant of deep faith and high integrity who finds courage to attempt an uncharted journey in our modern wilderness...
...South Carolinian had pledged "we have come to praise and not to condemn" when the nation's No. 1 Farmer stood up to address "the finest farm meeting I ever attended." Amid a storm of happy hog-calls, that agricultural editor and corn-raising expert, Henry Agard Wallace, began by proposing the "reelection of Theodore Roosevelt." Recovering the fumble, the Secretary of Agriculture blushingly explained that "in 1912 I was a Bull Mooser myself." Any forensic slip the Secretary might have made was forgotten when he began assailing "the big boys who want to take away our processing...
Philosophers' Ring. As farmers watched their growing cotton, wheat, piglets, so the Department of Agriculture watched the progress of its amendments. Chief of those crop watchers in Washington was the overlord of AAA, Henry Agard Wallace, a Democratic Secretary of Agriculture, son of a Republican Secretary of Agriculture, trying his philosophic best to reach the ends his late father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, sought in vain a dozen years...
Capitol guards, engaged in clearing the corridors outside the hall of the House of Representatives for President Roosevelt, stopped a hay-seedy-looking individual who, questioned closely, fumbled through his pockets for credentials, proved he was Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace...