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Through Secretary Wallace went out a call to a carefully selected group of farm leaders to come to Washington to confer on what should be done for agriculture. The carefully selected group did not include such anti-New Dealers as Kansas' Dan Casement, who is a charter member of the Liberty League, or Iowa's Milo Reno, promoter of the "Farm Holiday." It did include Edward A. O'Neal, head of the Federal Farm Bureau Federation, a good ally of the New Deal, and representatives of the Farmers' Union (strong in the South...
...submit to the editors of the News our advice to confer with their athletic director. Malcolm Farmer, in order to clarify their apparent misconceptions. --The Princetonian (Part of the editorial mentioned is reprinted below...
...Alberta new Social Credit Premier Aberhart, having got his $2,500,000 loan, announced that he was leaving for Detroit to confer with Radio Priest Coughlin. Said William Aberhart: "I am going to see Father Coughlin because I am in search of the most expert advice on this continent! We do not need Henry Ford's assistance but I should like to talk to him also because of his interest in economics...
Legion Lobbyist John Thomas Taylor once got a virtual bouncing for daring to enter the ornate President's Room where Senators and newshawks confer. But while the Spanish War pensions bill was pending in the Senate, gallery spectators observed another veterans' lobbyist in the Senate chamber itself, not merely sitting on the lounges in the rear but brazenly occupying Senators' seats. As a onetime (1925-27) Senator from Colorado, big. white-haired, black-browed Rice William Means had a right to be on the Senate floor. As tactful lobbvist-in-chief for United Spanish War Veterans...
Indeed in one case incest is deliberately practiced because it is thought to confer singular powers on the man who commits it. On the Nkomati River men, before departing to hunt hippopotamus, bed with their daughters, after which they are deemed to be murderers and wizards, and the hippopotamus will be no match for them...