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Iowa State College estimates that by tincturing the nation's gasoline with 10% of alcohol made from surplus crops, an annual outlet would be provided for 600,000,000 bu. of corn. Henry Agard Wallace of Iowa, next Secretary of Agriculture (see p. 12) is credited with having first commended to President-elect Roosevelt legislation requiring a gasoline-alcohol mixture. James Maurice Doran, Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol, has prepared a report on the project for Mr. Roosevelt...
...Wilson of the Montana State College of Agriculture & Mechanical Arts is generally regarded as author of the plan in its present form. His associates in perfecting it include Henry Ingraham. Harriman, now head of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Rogers R. Rogers of Prudential Insurance Co.; Henry Agard Wallace, Iowa farm publisher; Louis S. Clarke, president of Mortgage Bankers Association of Nebraska, and William Roy Ronald, editor of the Mitchell (S. Dak.) Evening Republican. As set forth in the "purely tentative" Jones bill, Domestic Allotment would work approximately as follows: Thirty days after enactment, the Secretary of Agriculture would...
...Senator-elect Clark (farm mortgages), Texas' Senator Connally (cotton prices). American Tobacco's George Washington Hill came to discuss upping tobacco prices. Rear Admiral Cary Grayson was told that the Roosevelt inaugural, which he will arrange, must be severely simple and inexpensive. The call of Henry Agard Wallace, bolting Republican farm publisher whose late father was Secretary of Agriculture under Harding and Coolidge, was construed as a Cabinet offer...
...other resigning professors, to date, are Messrs. Gaus (political science), Agard (Greek), Stewart (economics), Hinners (music) aud Hamilton (economics), who has become head of a Washington, D. C., graduate school...
Those who were chiefly responsible for Dr. Meikeljohn's removal spoke semi-officially as follows: " Professors Fitch, Hamilton and Stewart and Associate professors Gaus, Agard and Hinners have resigned from the Amherst faculty, alleging in substance that freedom of study and discussion will no longer be possible at Amherst. What the grounds for the belief of this statement are have not yet been submitted. Meanwhile friends of education and of Amherst may well await the appointments to the Faculty to be made by President-elect Olds before determining the question whether or not the Amherst of the future...