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...committee's mice-like labors had brought forth a mountain of confusion. The chairman, bulb-nosed, tobacco-chawin', houn'-dog-lovin' Henry Bascom Steagall of Ozark, Ala. had shown no disposition to hurry price-control legislation until the cotton-marketing season was over. The farm bloc, in complete control of the committee, had searched long and skillfully for a formula which would substantially inflate all farm prices, had finally found it: a ceiling on farm prices may not be set below the highest of these three levels: 1) 110% of parity; 2) the average price from...
Head of the Washington office: Bascom Timmons, Texas crony of Silliman Evans and Jesse Jones, now representative of eleven papers from Texas to Massachusetts...
...waking up; an almost religious essay on loneliness; a hard spanking of a literary critic who might be William Lyon Phelps or Henry Seidel Canby; a Swiftian attack on Irishmen; a few poignant pages on Cousin Arnold in which is resurrected the snorting ghost of that great comic character Bascom Hawke...
...bronzes, were discovered by William R. Bascom, of Northwestern University, during research in Nigeria, on the West African coast, near the famous native metal working center at Benin...
...plowing, the camp meeting gave Georgians a chance for chatting as well as churchgoing. Camp ers downed prodigious meals of fried chicken, country ham, barbecued beef, Brunswick stew, stuffed eggs, potato salad, corn on the cob, pie, watermelon, iced tea, lemonade, Coca-Cola. Even after such meals, old Dr. Bascom Anthony could stir his congregation...