Vernon Jarrett was a columnist for the Chicago Sun Times and I believe he came from The Chicago Daily News before it shut down.
Henry Wallace was FDR’s 2nd term VP and came from Iowa. There he headed the “Progrssive Farmers Party” and published a magazine Progressive Farmer which I believe is still in publication. Wallace set up a bunch of farmer co-ops which allowed small farmers to group sell their crops and and get group discounts Wallace was more of a Trotskyite than a Leninist and hated Stalin. Truman beatout Wallace bbecause of his left connections when it became an issue when FDR ran for his third term and as they say the rest is history .
I don’t find anything wrong with farmer co-ops, which I view as muscular form of liberty & association in action.
Farmers can, I believe, actually achieve better results financially by banding together.
Actually it was just called the “Progressive Party”.
It’s a shame Wallace got dumped from the ticket in ‘44. He would have been obliterated as the rat nominee in ‘48. That is if we could have avoided him turning the country into the USSSA in the meantime. Or a vassal state of the Japan Empire.
Hated Stalin?
Stalin forced Trosky into exile in 1929 and had him murdered in 1940. And yet during the decades that Stalin was Russia, Wallace was among its most ardent supporters. At the height of Stalin's power, Truman fired Wallace as Sec of Commerce because he saw him as "a dreamer who wants to disband our armed forces, give Russia our atomic secrets, and trust the Kremlin Politburo." When the FBI was investigating Wallace for handing over atom bomb secrets to the Russians during the war, Wallace wrote Albert Einstein, asking for a statement "enlightening the public with regard to the utter insignificance of five hundred pounds of uranium oxide and five hundred pounds of uranium nitrate even for experimental purposes." [ See "The Forsaken" by Tim Tzouliadis, p. 279-282 ]
Despite the Left's continuing defense of Wallace, his guilt was beyond any reasonable doubt. Wallace did not hate any Communist, Stalin included. He only hated those who resisted Communism.