Word: agriculturist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Ernest Gannett, chubby, full-faced publisher cf the third largest chain of U. S. dailies,† last week bought his first magazine. It was The American Agriculturist, oldest (92 years) farm publication in the U. S. The seller was Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury and gentleman farmer in Dutchess County, N. Y. Secretary Morgenthau sold not because he had lost interest in a sheet he had issued twice a month from Poughkeepsie for the past twelve years but because an old Federal Law prohibits the Secretary of Treasury from holding a majority stock interest in any business...
...still dry enough to refuse all liquor advertising, but since the first indications of a managed currency Publisher Gannett has been an ardent New Dealer. Secretary Morgenthau is one of his friends. So is Professor George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren of Cornell, whose views the Agriculturist has long reflected. Publisher Gannett saw a chance not only to oblige his friend and neighbor, but also to turn a pretty profit if the New Deal works out as he hopes...
John Buchan was brought up in the old Free Church which was merged with the Church of Scotland in 1929, when the Duke of York was Lord High Commissioner. A quiet, knobbly-browed Scotsman, he has been playwright, actor, newsman, publisher, lawyer, justice of the peace, agriculturist, tax expert, Wartime propagandist, soldier, lecturer, mountain-climber, angler. He sits in Commons for the Scottish Universities, is a trustee of the National Library of Scotland. Best known of his rare bills in Commons was for greyhound racing. John Buchan is famed in Great Britain and well-known...
...ambassador to Turkey, was to be made Governor of the Farm Credit Administration upon the abolition of the Farm Board of which he was appointed chairman. A Dutchess County neighbor of President Roosevelt, he served under him as New York State Conservation Commissioner. He publishes the American Agriculturist, runs a 1,400-acre fruit and dairy farm. Said he: "Our idea is to fix the credit structure so that a farmer can borrow money for planting, harvesting and upon his land all in one spot...
Henry Morgenthau Jr. of Manhattan, son of the onetime Ambassador to Turkey, publisher of the American Agriculturist, was appointed and confirmed as a member of the Federal Farm Board...