Word: agrarian
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...vigorously suggested: 1) the McNary-Haugen bill which provided for a huge Government brokerage corporation to buy the farmers' crops and virtually fix the market prices, operating expenses being paid by an equalization fee (crop tax), collected from the farmers; 2) the Norbeck-Burtness bill which would aid the agrarian by lending him Government money...
When the U. S. was very young,* wooden bowls were turned where "dish timber" grew and "minifers" (pins) came whence brass could be drawn into wire. New England resourcefulness produced "Yankee notions" which found a ready market with the agrarian Dutch, the simple Quakers, the luxury-loving Southerners. Bright young Yankees left home with a packful of Neighbor Brown's nutmegs, Neighbor Smith's pie tins and Uncle Timothy's rawhide "whangs" (shoe-laces). Bronson Alcott hit the road with tinware and almanacs instead of going to Yale. Worcester Polytechnic Institute was founded by John Boynton, onetime...
...Agrarian History of England, France and Germany until 1860," Professor Gay, Harvard 1, Economics...
...basic problem in Mexico is the agrarian problem," stated Mr. Tannenbaum when asked for the chief problems facing Mexico. Next, in order of their importance, are the problems of their relation with the United States, the problem of political democracy, the race problem, education, and the industrial problem. The religious problem is least important...
...another [term], he will have been President two years longer than any other man in our history. The limitation that Washington and Jefferson regarded as wise and to which Grant and Roosevelt yielded as final is to be broken for Coolidge? It does not seem sane. Second, the agrarian revolt in the great Republican States in the West is real. . . . "A third argument is that there is in the field a Presidential candidate inherently stronger than Mr. Coolidge-Frank 0. Lowden. It may be that his age-66-or his health, or some other reason will keep Mr. Lowden from...