Word: acree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To the plain-garbed, plain-spoken Mennonites and Amishmen of Pennsylvania, the New Deal has meant a far from abundant life. Because the Amish churches frown upon written contracts, loans, gifts and joining secular organizations, the "plain people" declined to sign contracts with the AAA, or accept its benefits, although...
Not content with having resigned his Presbyterian pastorate and gone to jail in the 1919 steel strike, the late William Mann Fincke* in 1921 gave his 53-acre estate in Katonah, N. Y., with its big colonial farmhouse, to found Brookwood Labor College, first labor college in the U. S...
About ten dogs, all scotties except for one Sealyham, are called for in the script. Francis H. Hart, Jr. '27, author and director of "Straight Scotch," has tentatively selected the dogs used. He hopes that Flintfield Gayseal, a son of Champions, of the High Acre kennels of Newton Center, will...
Four commercial growers are using the Gericke methods, under his supervision. One of these, at Montebello, Calif., has grown premium tomatoes which sold for $262 per ton at the rate of 100 tons per acre of water. Gericke does not ask for fees from these companies. "All I want," he...
Dr. Gericke's present relations with his colleagues and superiors in the College of Agriculture are strained almost to the point of diplomatic severance. He accuses his critics of not appreciating the importance of his labors. They reply that he is. on the one hand, too secretive about his...