Word: alfalfaism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspection. Costing the same $500,000,000, it was basically identical with the apparatus whipped together last spring after the Supreme Court had ruled the AAAct off the road. As a reward for diverting their acres from "soil-depleting" crops (cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco) to "soil-building" crops (alfalfa, soybeans, grasses), farmers will receive Federal bounties averaging slightly less than $10 per acre. Thus, by the back door of soil conservation, the New Deal will continue to achieve some production control of cash crops, which the Supreme Court has forbidden it to approach directly...
Seventy-seven counties has the State of Oklahoma - Choctaw and Pushmataha, Bryan and Love, Jefferson and Garfield, Custer and Dewey, Cotton and Alfalfa, Beaver and Kingfisher, many another...
...Landon; Vice President, Frank Knox; Secretary of State, Alfred E. Smith; Secretary of the Treasury, du Pont and du Pont; Attorney General, John W. Davis; Secretary of the Interior, Jim Reed; Postmaster General, John D. M. Hamilton; Secretary of Commerce, Governor E. W. Marland; Ambassador to Bolivia, former Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray; Ambassador to Russia, William Allen White. To various local dignitaries went the posts of Ambassador to the U. S., Ambassador to Ethiopia, Governor General of the Philippines, Minister to Oklahoma, Minister to the Cherokee Nation...
Onto his train at El Reno, immaculate in blue and with bristly hair well brushed, climbed Oklahoma's gaunt, rustic William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, who had promised to introduce him at Oklahoma City. Arrived at their destination, the onetime Democratic Governor and the Republican Nominee stepped off the train arm in arm. Alf Landon's throat was scarf-wound against the cold and for further protection he was bundled into a closed car for the drive to the hotel. Friends offered the closed car as explanation of the appalling scene which followed. As Nominee Landon passed through...
There were cheers in the local Coliseum when "Alfalfa Bill" Murray rose to introduce the Nominee as a composite of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln. James A. Garfield and Calvin Coolidge "plus a pleasant personality." Returning the compliment, Nominee Landon listed the onetime Governor first among famed anti-New Deal Democrats who had espoused his cause, called on "real Democrats" throughout the land to rally...