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Married. Robert Browne Wallace, 27, Commerce Secretary Henry Agard Wallace's ex-Army major son, now a fledgling educational film producer (Film Publish ers, Inc.); and Gordon Grosvenor, 27, Yale Ph.D. in sociology; both for the first time; in Philadelphia...
...Deal hierarchy was more suspect by businessmen than Henry Agard Wallace. So when he moved in as Secretary of Commerce, he smartly laid low, concentrated on rejuvenating his department. Under the Roosevelt administration, the department, which had been ably organized by Herbert Hoover, had gone to pot. When Henry Wallace did speak up, he tried to pass as the new friend of businessmen (whom he had once implied were fascists). His technique: an imitation of Free Enterpriser Eric Johnson...
...next four years, U.S. business will enjoy profits twice as great as in 1940. But in 1950, unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression. So said Commerce Secretary Henry Agard Wallace, before a closed session of the House Appropriations Subcommittee over a month...
...Henry Agard Wallace was doubly rewarded for his international plugging of "equal justice for all"; the African Academy of Arts and Research presented him with an African mahogany table (see cut) and a session of African whoop-te-do. Ceremonially involved were Prince Akiki Nyabongo of Uganda and K. Ozuomba Mbadiwe of Nigeria (both in flowing robes), Asadata Dafora (who did a knottily convulsive dance) and Norman Coker (who beat a drum...
Stepchild. From now on the sale of surplus consumer goods will be made through the War Assets Corp., a Reconstruction Finance Corp. subsidiary. The shift, from the Department of Commerce, was made at the request of Henry Agard Wallace. Thus he neatly sidestepped the storm over bungling in the disposal of surplus property due chiefly to inept legislation...