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...Henry is just home folks," said the chairman, introducing Henry Agard Wallace. The onetime Secretary of Agriculture and U.S. Vice President took time off last week from the quiet life on his South Salem, N.Y. farm to attend a Des Moines farm meeting. The introduction done, Wallace arose to make "my most important speech in several years." Those who remembered him as the avant-garde New Dealer and author of Government corn and cotton loans in 1933 were in for a surprise: Henry Wallace urged a U.S. farm program almost the same as that put forth by the Republican Eisenhower...
...Henry Agard Wallace, poultry farmer and onetime Vice President of the U.S., was called for jury duty at the Westchester County Courthouse at White Plains, N.Y., only to find himself rejected as a juror two days in a row. On the third try he was found acceptable, and impaneled to help decide a civil damage suit...
...early 20s, Henry Agard Wallace was an Iowa Republican, a member of his grandfather's Calvinistic church, and mostly occupied in experimenting with hybrid corn...
...correctly, that if farm markets were sick, then the U.S. was unhealthy at its core. They did not get parity written into law until after the New Deal moved in with its valise full of devices to repeal the law of supply & demand. That was the day of Henry Agard Wallace's "planned scarcity," which killed little pigs and plowed under cotton, and the "ever-normal granary," which made loans on surplus grains and stored them for possible years of paucity...
...Wallace got his start in the chicken business when he was a twelve-year-old Des Moines schoolboy On Easter Sunday 1926, his mother gave him a dozen baby chicks from the dime store and he began raising them in his backyard, with some advice from his father, Henry Agard Wallace. No politician then father Henry was spending his time developing his hybrid corn,* forming the Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. to sell the seed, and editing Wallaces' Farmer. When the corn became a success (over 99% of Iowa corn springs from some brand of hybrid ternel), young Henry...