Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...similar substitute) at the next session of Congress. The Administration, too, announced last week that it would push a new farm relief bill which Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine, Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, Eugene Meyer, head of the Federal Farm Loan Board, and others have been formulating during the summer...
This bill is a stupendous elaboration of the Administration's bygone bills for lending money to cooperative farmers. It provides for the creation of a Federal Farm Board of three members, with advisory councils. These men will establish commodity stabilization corporations?one for each important crop. The Government will lend $250,-000,000 to these corporations, so that they may purchase crops in the open market during periods of depression. To cooperative farming associations, the Government will lend $25,000,000 to buy equipment, warehouses, etc.; $25,000,000 for operating expenses...
...devoting a considerable sum of money every year, a maximum in one year of $5,000,000, to ... a new board called the Empire Marketing Board...
...This board works in very close co-operation with the Government of the day and the bulk of the money which it is spending at present is being devoted to a campaign of what you very well understand in the New World as publicity...
...they are liquor barons. Being rivals in business, in facial attraction, in drinking capacity, they love to cause each other physical and financial embarrassment. The final episode finds Mr. Gilbert piloting his rumrunner off the coast of Long Island, with a charming society girl (Joan Crawford) on board against her will. Out of the night comes Mr. Torrence, with his rough-and-rum-necks, to capture Mr. Gilbert & crew. There is a grand and gory fight just before the U. S. Coast Guard ship arrives. The rivals die in each other's arms, agreeing that each is "a damn...