Word: butter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corn duty was moved up from 15¢ to 25¢ per bushel (30¢ was the farm demand). Beef went up from 3¢ to 6¢ per pound (farmers wanted an 8¢ rate). Butter was left at 12¢ per lb., whither President Coolidge had temporarily raised it from 8¢. Tariff duties on milk and cream were doubled. Poultry & eggs, lard & swine, vegetables & fruits all moved up proportionately on the new tariff scale...
Farmers looked at what they got, at what they had asked and frowned. Flaxseed had been held at 56¢ per lb. when they had demanded an 84¢ duty. Their 15¢ butter rate had been spurned. They found hides still on the free list and no provision for obstructing the free importation of vegetable oils from the Philippines. Where they had asked for an 8¢ duty on casein, the House Committee gave them a 2½¢ duty. The U. S. husbandman's representatives were loud with the U. S. husbandman's disgust...
Defense. When debate opened in the House, the bill's principal author, Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee, gave a three-hour lecture on its meaning. His chief points were: 1) tariff protection means Prosperity; 2) rates on basic commodities (beef, butter, wheat, wool, etc.) were first fixed, then related products were adjusted therefrom; 3) minor crops were given special protection to induce farmers now producing surplus cereals to turn to them as crop variants; 4) "apparent changes greatly exceed actual changes" in the bill; 5) "We should be self-sustaining and self-sufficient...
...likes the taste of butter "straight" less than His Majesty's bantamweight, peppery Secretary of State for Dominions & Colonies, the Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery. None the less, Mr. Amery let a great deal of butter melt on his short, sharp tongue, the other day in London, tasting samples at the Australian Butter Show. Prizes had been offered by the Orient Steam- Navigation Co., Ltd. (whose packets ply to Australia) for "the best export butter"-one which would still be "best" after the 13,000-mile voyage to England. Each sample had been point-scored when shipped...
...Blue butter, a'stutter, a'flutter, no mutter, no matter, no clatter, that picture, that stricture gives rise, not wisely but unwisely, to the crack, to the smack, fee-fi-io-flack, It's a nose, it's a Nose, it's a NOSE...