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| − | '''Henry Agard Wallace''' '''(1888 - 18 November 1965)''' was a [[Democratic]] politician and the second Vice President under [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] from 1941-1945. He was not renominated as Roosevelt's running mate in 1944. | + | '''Henry Agard Wallace''' '''(1888 - 18 November 1965)''' was a [[Democratic]] politician and the second Vice President under [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] from 1941-1945. He was not renominated as Roosevelt's running mate in [[United States presidential election, 1944|1944]]. |
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| | Wallace apparently fired Roerich while he was in Asia. Subsequently Horch filed suit to recover his investment of $1,100,000 and got possession of the Museum building. In 1942 Horch was transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] of which Wallace was the head and Milo Perkins executive director. When Wallace became Secretary of Commerce he made Horch chief of the supply division in the New York office of the [[Foreign Economic Administration]]. | | Wallace apparently fired Roerich while he was in Asia. Subsequently Horch filed suit to recover his investment of $1,100,000 and got possession of the Museum building. In 1942 Horch was transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] of which Wallace was the head and Milo Perkins executive director. When Wallace became Secretary of Commerce he made Horch chief of the supply division in the New York office of the [[Foreign Economic Administration]]. |
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| − | Just prior to the 1940 election Republican leaders received a batch of letters in handwriting on Department of Agriculture stationery written to Roerich. Having proved the authenticity of Wallace being the author through expert handwriting examination, they considered making them public. According to Newsweek, [[Harry Hopkins]], then managing the Roosevelt/Wallace campaign, went to [[Wendell Willkie]], the GOP candidate, and told him that if the Wallace correspondence became public, then so would embarrassing information about his private life. | + | Just prior to the [[United States presidential election, 1940|1940 election]] Republican leaders received a batch of letters in handwriting on Department of Agriculture stationery written to Roerich. Having proved the authenticity of Wallace being the author through expert handwriting examination, they considered making them public. According to Newsweek, [[Harry Hopkins]], then managing the Roosevelt/Wallace campaign, went to [[Wendell Willkie]], the GOP candidate, and told him that if the Wallace correspondence became public, then so would embarrassing information about his private life. |
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| | In the letters. Wallace addressed Roerich as "My Dear Guru." Roosevelt was referred to as "The Flaming One," [[Winston Churchill]] as "The Roaring Lion," Secretary of State [[Cordell Hull]] as "The Sour One," and Russia as "The Tiger." One sentence gives a taste of Wallace's prose: "Yes, the search, whether it be for the lost world of Masonry or the Holy Chalice or the potentialities of the age to come is the one supremely worthwhile in objective. All else is Karmic duty. Here is life." <ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n14_v46/ai_15674708/pg_1 The Wallace case] - 50th anniversary of Democratic Party's Jul 21, 1944 selection of Harry S. Truman to replace Henry Wallace as Franklin Roosevelt's running mate, by Arnold Beichman, National Review, August 1, 1994.</ref> | | In the letters. Wallace addressed Roerich as "My Dear Guru." Roosevelt was referred to as "The Flaming One," [[Winston Churchill]] as "The Roaring Lion," Secretary of State [[Cordell Hull]] as "The Sour One," and Russia as "The Tiger." One sentence gives a taste of Wallace's prose: "Yes, the search, whether it be for the lost world of Masonry or the Holy Chalice or the potentialities of the age to come is the one supremely worthwhile in objective. All else is Karmic duty. Here is life." <ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n14_v46/ai_15674708/pg_1 The Wallace case] - 50th anniversary of Democratic Party's Jul 21, 1944 selection of Harry S. Truman to replace Henry Wallace as Franklin Roosevelt's running mate, by Arnold Beichman, National Review, August 1, 1994.</ref> |
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| | ==1948 Presidential bid== | | ==1948 Presidential bid== |
| − | He ran as the [[Progressive party]] nominee in the [[United States presidential election of 1948]], but lost to [[Harry Truman]]. <ref> [[Fandex]], Workman Publishing, 2002. </ref> Former [[New Deal]] economist and Soviet spy [[Harry Magdoff]] was an advisor and speechwriter during Wallace’s 1948 unsuccessful bid. | + | He ran as the [[Progressive party]] nominee in the [[United States presidential election of 1948|presidential election of 1948]], but lost to [[Harry Truman]]. <ref> [[Fandex]], Workman Publishing, 2002. </ref> Former [[New Deal]] economist and Soviet spy [[Harry Magdoff]] was an advisor and speechwriter during Wallace’s 1948 unsuccessful bid. |
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| | ==Subversion in Government Investigation== | | ==Subversion in Government Investigation== |