"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 Administration. Wallace's...
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