Word: board
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wheat was the Board's primary problem. Between the Board and that crop, the harvest of which was moving north out of Kansas at the rate of 25 miles per day, a hard-driven race had developed. The Board's first aim was to interpose its relief machinery before this year's wheat crop heaps up on last year's carry over and again depresses prices. A scant two months remained in which to erect dikes against the grain flood. In that time a wheat advisory council had to be named by the Board. The council...
Last week President Hoover was still searching for a wheat representative on his Farm Board and having a hard time finding someone satisfactory to the varying shades of political opinion in that major branch of husbandry. When Chairman Legge accepted his appointment, he was in a Kansas wheat field, watching the progress of the harvest, pondering the great problem that lay ahead of his Board...
...give the Board a headstart on the wheat problem, the Department of Agriculture last week began a nationwide movement to get wheat-growers to increase their own storage facilities on the farm. Purpose: if each wheat man stored a part of his own crop, the autumn market peak would be diminished, prices would be steadied, car shortages and terminal embargoes would be avoided...
...Hoover hope to have the Farm Board installed on recess appointments and swinging along at full stride before the Senate reconvenes Aug. 19 to take up the members' confirmations...
...Clarence True Wilson, General Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, arch-lobbyist of the U. S. Drys, Consolidated (TIME, July 1), last week hinted, in an article for Collier's magazine, at a new way of enforcing Prohibition. Excerpts: "Every soldier and sailor has taken an oath to sustain the laws of the land. We already have a standing army ready and able to enforce all laws in every foot of the land and a man at the helm-Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy-who has taken a solemn oath to protect...