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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chosen as F. N. G. C. organizer was William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, the man who led the "Equalization Fee March" around the Republican National Convention hall last year in Kansas City. Ever an enthusiast, Organizer Settle said last week in Chicago: "This is the greatest day in the history of agriculture since I can remember. . . . This is what we have been dreaming for years?united action? and it's the first time it has been realized. . . . President Hoover is sincerely trying to carry out the pledge he made...
Receiving the reports, Commissioner Doran announced: "The Bureau of Prohibition will proceed to act upon applications ... for permits to manufacture whiskey for medicinal use. . . . The amount of actual whiskey on hand July 1, 1929 is 9,549,017 gallons. If further manufacture is now permitted, it will be late fall or nearly Jan. 1, 1930 before actual production commences. . . . Extensive examinations have been made of the bonded whiskey stocks and I can state that they are in sound condition. Of the 300,000 barrels in bonded storage not in excess of 1,000 barrels are of questionable quality. . . . The withdrawal...
...membership: 50,000). Witness Edgerton had been arguing at length before the committee in behalf of increased "flexibility" in the new tariff bill. Others who had demanded the same thing were Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor; Chester Gray, legal representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Lerch, counsel of the American Tariff League. Mr. Lerch also called for a change from foreign to domestic valuation in administering the new tariff bill...
...names as Quincy Bent, vice president of Bethlehem Steel, Lawrence Aloysius Downs, President of Illinois Central, and Matthew Scott Sloan, president of New York Edison. Actual standardizing activities, however, will be carried on along the original engineering lines. The Association also announced a close contact with the U. S. Bureau of Standards, one of its directors being George Kimball Burgess, the Bureau of Standards head...
...from Harvard in 1910. A Certified Public Accountant in 1916, he next year joined the Federal Trade Commission, was sent to Chicago to investigate Armour & Co. Working with the U. S. Food Administration in 1918, he left it for another investigation: milk. He joined the staff of the Labor Bureau, Inc. in 1921, is now President...