Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization is, in the words of Director General Sir John Boyd Orr, to see to it "that the people of the world will never again suffer from famine." Last week, the business at its meeting in Copenhagen was still chiefly organization. Detailed plans for a world food board and international price stabilization would be submitted to member Governments and ultimately to the U.N. Sir John Orr was actually promoting a kind of worldwide A.A.A. to regulate farming globally. The plan was highly controversial. The U.S. State Department was dead set against...
Crusading Plan. Such famine hazards were exactly what was on the mind of Sir John Boyd Orr, banyan-browed Scottish nutritionist and food crusader. To the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), of which he is director general, he was about to submit a plan which would free farming from gambling, he hoped. FAO, now only an advisory body, should enter the operating field, create a central financial system for buying any nation's surplus crops; it would eventually control production, fix prices, do away with the up-&-down cycles...
...University of Pennsylvania; Brig. Gen. Hanford MacNider '11, Mason City, Ia., former Assistant Secretary of War and former U. S. Minister to Canada; Henry W. Clark '23, Juneau, Alaska, of the Alaska Development Board; Lawrence Coolidge '27, Hamilton, Mass., member of the law firm of Gaston, Snow, Rice & Boyd; and William G. Saltonstall '28, Exeter, N. H., newly-named principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. The sixth Overseer, Rev. Charles W. Gilkey '03, Chicago, associate dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, will serve for two years, filling the unexpired term of the late President-emeritus William Allan Neilson...
John Taylor Boyd...
...John Boyd Orr proposed a permanent international food council with powers to execute the recommendations of FAO, which now has only advisory functions. But the old bogey of national sovereignty immediately rose to plague the delegates. Any international food board with real power would tend inevitably to equalize food consumption; nations that can get more food by their own devices are likely to oppose genuine world food control. The U.S. would not want to accept the British calorie level, and the British would not want India...