Word: corn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capper's senior and colleague is Charles Curtis, the Republican leader, and although as the junior Senator from Kansas Mr. Capper occupies no such important post, his importance has swelled in the political firmament as the resentment of corn farmers in the West (TIME, Jan. 4, 11) has been more and more clearly disclosed at the Capital during the last few days...
...beautiful scion, sometimes a grotesque mongrel, sometimes finding a futile barrenness. Last week Naturalist Burbank was elated, greeted pressmen with news of seven miracles of hybridization in plants. He reported a new camassia, blue tinted, excelling all others in beauty and ability to multiply; a rainbowteosinte, a giant corn that grows eight feet tall and produces 8 to 14 ears a stalk; a giant cactus-flowering zinnia, developed from the familiar plant; a hybrid of the torch lily, the tritoma, which will bloom profusely in cold climates; an even more magnificent Shasta daisy than blooms at present; a new strain...
...Trouble. All issues arise from somebody's trouble. This issue arises out of financial misfortune in farming communities. It centres for the present in Iowa: the price of corn, bank failures, etc.?the entire round of agricultural depression. The leaders of the issue-makers are Senator Capper of Kansas and Representative Dickinson of Iowa, both Republicans, champions in the two Houses of Congress of a rapidly reviving farm bloc...
...Washington with farm editors, with farm leaders of note (Frank 0. Lowden, Aaron Shapiro, Sam Thompson), with a conference of cooperative marketing associations. Some of the supporters of the Administration's position blame Iowa's troubles largely on Iowa's banks. Iowa normally feeds about four fifths of her corn to hogs. Last year the corn crop was small, and Iowa farmers sold many hogs, presumably under bankers' advice. This year the corn crop is large. That of itself tends to lower the price. The quality of the crop is poor, which tends to lower the price further. And since...
...Corn Products Refining...