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Bernard Mannes Baruch is not a farmer. He was for years a member of the New York Stock Exchange. He has served in many governmental capacities. He wrote the economic sections of the Versailles Treaty. Lately he has been studying the problems of the farmer...
...product of his studies, a plan for helping grain farmers to market their product, was surprised out of him by newspapers. The Journal of Commerce (Chicago) published an account of Mr. Baruch's plan; so Mr. Baruch decided to give a full and correct account of it himself. The proposal is simple...
...Baruch hastened to add that the proposal had not gone beyond the stage of discussion and that he had merely discussed its general feasibility with J. Ogden Armour and Mr. Marcy. Mr. Armour was at first opposed to the plan, but later changed his mind when Mr. Baruch pointed out that if the farmers should take over the Armour Grain Co. it would be a monument to Mr. Armour and his father...
...advantages of cooperative marketing under good management are generally appreciated by the farmers. Mr. Baruch's real contribution is a plan by which the farmers would take over an organization thoroughly experienced in the marketing of grain...
Secretary of War Weeks: " I announced the awarding of Distinguished Service Medals to ten dollar-a-year men who served on the War Industries Board during the war. Mr. Bernard M. Baruch, who was chairman of the Board, refused a medal two years ago, but I hope that he will reconsider now that his colleagues share the honor...