Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They asked him why the Federal Farm Board had been so slow in extending to farmers the $500,000,000 credit at its disposal. Chairman Legge replied: "It took Congress eight years to pass farm legislation. The Board should be given a little more than two months to accomplish what is expected...
They asked him if it were true that the Board's credit was being extended only in cases where loans were otherwise unavailable; they said Congress had intended something quite different. He replied: "I have read the bill about 20 times and I don't understand yet. If anyone of you understand, you are better men than...
They asked him if he thought he was the whole Board. Said he: "We haven't had a divided vote in the Board. I can, therefore, reasonably be held responsible. . . . You have the right fellow here and if it has been wrong you can crucify...
...wheat prices been stabilized? Chairman Legge explained that the Farmers' National Grain Marketing Corp. had been formulated within nine days of the Board's birth; that expensive storage facilities were lacking to stabilize wheat this year...
...trying to handle this money with a reasonable measure of safety. As long as I am a member of the board that will be my purpose. I do not want to be confirmed under any impression that any other policy will be followed...