National Affairs: Wallace on the Way

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Last week Midwestern farmers studied the actions of a man who might be President.

There was nothing sensational about these actions. This was typical: Henry Wallace, a pleasant-appearing, embarrassed man with an honest eye and a slight touch of hay fever, drove into the farming community of St. Peter, Minn, to campaign as the Democratic nominee for the Vice-Presidency. A Democratic National Committeewoman lives in St. Peter; nevertheless something had gone wrong. St. Peter citizens did not know the candidate was in town, did not even know that he was coming....

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