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...products- has not provided prices as high as his, because farmers are still losing their homes in spite of the Farm Credit Administration, at Shenandoah, Iowa Milo Reno was enthusiastically cheered when he described the Agricultural Adjustment Act as "diabolical." He demanded the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. "Wallace's education and association with Wall Street have made him what he is today. Wallace would make a second-rate county agent if he knew a little more." Shenandoah's farmers paraded through the streets of the little country town, in solemn protest. At the fair...
...second time in a week, a publicized message from the President to somebody else was counted on to save the day (see p. 13). Up to an NBC microphone marched young, hard-driving Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace to read a letter President Roosevelt had written him "to make it very clear" that he "attached the greatest possible importance to the cotton adjustment campaign...
Most interested spectator at President Roosevelt's conference with the Senators was a lean-faced, youngish man of 44 with a mop of dark brown hair just turning grey and deep thoughtful eyes-an economic idealist. Taciturn, he sat and listened most of the time. He was Henry Agard Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture and the official upon whose none-too-husky shoulders falls the job of administering the enormous powers buried deep in the Roosevelt farm bill. In his diffident way he had already given the Senate committee his views on this measure, designed to restore farm purchasing power...
...Henry Agard Wallace got most of his farm relief ideas and a personal antipathy for Herbert Hoover from his father, whom he succeeded as editor of Wallaces' Farmer (now combined with the Iowa Homestead). In looks Son Wallace took more after his grandfather who founded that family publication. Like his father, he talks little and slowly. He has long studied the farm problem at an editorial desk. In 1928 he silently opposed Herbert Hoover; in 1932 he was red-hot for Roosevelt. Iowa Republicans were shocked by his political heresy, set it down to a family grudge dating back...
Secretary of Agriculture. Henry Agard Wallace, 44, got into the Cabinet because of a family grudge against Herbert Hoover. His father was Harding's Secretary of Agriculture when the outgoing President was Harding's Secretary of Commerce. The elder Wallace's plans for farm relief were frustrated by the White House influence of Secretary Hoover. Secretary Wallace, a good Republican to the end, died in office (1924), lay in state in the White House East Room. This year the younger Wallace had his revenge when he helped turn Iowa Democratic...