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...will not soon sell abroad, where an already glutted market provoked last week's International Grain Conference at Rome.* Storage on this wheat costs about $50,000,000 (18� per bu. per annum), and the storage space it occupies will be needed for the 1931 crop. Idaho's Senator Borah proposes shipping it to the hungry Chinese (who do not know how to eat wheat) or burning it all up (Argentina was last week discussing corn for fuel, as during...
Again critics raised their voices to ask what good President Hoover's Unemployment Relief program had accomplished while Unemployment was more than doubling. Declared Senator Borah: ". . . An occasion for a special session of Congress! We should be legislating...
...Speech, The Progressives' meetings were decorous, academic, humorless. Most of the addresses were rehashes of things said and said again in Congress. New ideas were scarce. From Senator Borah came the Big Speech. His subject was Wealth, with a dash of Farm Relief for flavoring. High spot: "To attack the rich because they are rich is one thing but to insist that they shall operate in accordance with honest laws and honest principles is the supreme question today before the American people. . . . Economists have advised us that 3% of the people own 75% of the wealth...
...Jones, owner of Washington's famed Audley Farms racing stable, honored Idaho's Senator & Mrs. Borah by renaming his Bright Knight-Princess Doreen filly "Mary Borah." The filly's previous name, which Mr. Jones had found pre-empted in the studbook, was Princess Mary...
...lack of the gambling facilities which help make life bearable in Reno. Representative Maude Largent Cosho pointed out: "Visitors would go back east and say they had to sit around and crochet. That isn't as good advertising as we're getting from spuds and Senator Borah...