Word: cea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Stock Exchange, the members of the Chicago Board of Trade regard themselves as an exclusive club with a divine right not only to deal in grain but also to speculate in it. Just as the Stock Exchange has its SEC, so the Grain Pit has its CEA. But the Commodity Exchange Administration so far has been quite liberal and one of the few limits to speculative activity in grain is a mysterious "gentlemen's agreement" said to have been reached in 1926 by a Kansas city grain merchant named Lonsdale and the then Secretary of Agriculture, William...