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Henry Wallace, 51, Secretary of Agriculture, author of Corn and Corn Growing, onetime editor of Wallace's Farmer, has a reputation as the dreamer of the Roosevelt Administration. He is, says Arthur Krock, "a high-minded, thoughtful man, a progressive, one of the best writers in the New Deal, compassionate and intelligent." But, adds Mr. Krock-like many an observer before him-the Secretary has no sense of timing. When the slaughtered pigs are better forgotten, according to all New Deal strategists, he delivers a carefully phrased explanation of the policy that led to their slaughtering; addressing restive, hard...
Last week Secretary Wallace did it again. In Berkeley, Calif., preparing to dedicate a new Department of Agriculture laboratory, to attend the Western Conference on Governmental Problems and other Bay district events, he broke the truce on partisan politics for which President Roosevelt asked when war broke out in Europe (TIME, Sept. 11). It was eight in the morning, and the reporters were sleepy. Whether or not they exercised their fatal fascination, the Secretary soon found himself saying: "The war situation obviously makes it clear that the President's talents and training are necessary to steer the country, domestically...
More jovial was the response to Mr. Wallace. Scripps-Howard Cartoonist Tal-burt summed it up by picturing a beaming figure called Third Term perched on a stairway, to the consternation of Conservative Democrats below, and quoting New York University Professor Mearns's jingle about the little man who wasn't there: "He wasn't there again today: Oh, how I wish he'd go away." Ordinarily irritated at reporters' prodding about the third term, generally inviting them to go stand in the corner, put on the dunce cap, or merely rewarding them with...
...attempt to adjust Latin-American defaulted bonds held by U. S. investors, refused to comment on whether or not he favored scaling down the $1,000,000,000 Latin-American debts. Reason: the inter-American economic conference next month. > Tut-tutted flesh-creepers in a radio speech on the New York Herald Tribune Forum. Said he: "In and out of Congress we have heard orators and commentators and others beating their breasts and proclaiming against sending the boys of American mothers to fight on the battlefields of Europe. That I do not hesitate to label as one of the worst...
Congressman Jerry Voorhis of San Dimas, Calif., a little Leftist, was placed on the Dies committee last February to counterbalance its Red-hunting chairman. Jerry Voorhis soon was more appalled by his new view of U. S. Communists and Nazis than by the antics of Martin Dies. Having come to check and scoff, the new member remained to respect the work if not the chairman of the committee. But last week Mr. Voorhis suddenly drew back, cried: "I can't vote for that...