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...Failure of American beet sugar crops...
...three concoctions endorsed by Hauser-"Slim" (containing the harmful drugs senna, bladderwrack, buckthorn bark), "Correcol" (consisting of weeds and gum), and Hauser Potassium Broth (a mixture of alfalfa, okra. beet tops, etc.)-were seized and declared by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to be "misbranded and sold under false and fraudulent claims...
They found a good sugar-beet crop waiting for them, but all the sugar factories wrecked. They set women to harvesting standing wheat and rye, but they had to harvest with scythes and horses instead of modern machinery. They tried to get autumn sowing done, but only put in from 5% to 7% of normal seedings...
Significant was the convention's treatment of two men who have been Legion heroes for almost a quarter-century: Missouri's beet-faced, belligerent Senator Bennett Champ Clark, New York's gangling, ham-handed Representative Hamilton Fish, both airtight, waterproof, hermetically sealed Isolationists. Clark, one of the 17 Legion founders and the first permanent Legion chairman, was roundly booed. Fish, who wrote the preamble to the Legion constitution, came to town to make converts, soon gave up and left...
...farmer was Hermann Rauschning (The Revolution of Nihilism}. Not a Junker, but "a distant connection of most of the Junker families of East Prussia," Rauschning ran "a medium-sized farm of not quite 250 acres" near Danzig, stepped up its sugar-beet and flax yield by intensive cultivation. Believing that "the breeder is a co-creator and an ennobler of nature," he raised purebred horses and heifers. Believing in "the full quiver," he sired eight children, lost three...