Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tennessee's Governor Henry Hollis Horton ordered a raid on his wife's farm when autopsies on three fine cows revealed they had died from eating alcoholic corn mash. Arrested for distilling: William Bryant, Mrs. Horton's resident farmer...
...18¢ per bu. per annum), and the storage space it occupies will be needed for the 1931 crop. Idaho's Senator Borah proposes shipping it to the hungry Chinese (who do not know how to eat wheat) or burning it all up (Argentina was last week discussing corn for fuel, as during...
Meanwhile President Hoover found a man to take the place of Alexander Legge and thus complete the Board's membership. He was 67-year-old Samuel Henry ("Sam") Thompson of Quincy, Ill., president of the potent American Farm Bureau Federation. Mr. Thompson owns a 500-acre corn farm which his son operates. He heads a country bank but for years his real profession has been organizing agriculture. In 1924 he was advocating the Equalization Fee form of Farm Relief before a House Committee when a Congressman challenged his right to speak for farmers. Mr. Thompson hustled back to Illinois, returned...
...boys. But the boys were beginning to arrive, there was much to be done, and the father of the Negro family had left in a huff. Out to the kitchen bustled White Cassock to tell the harassed Negro mother: "All we wish for supper is some nice corn-cakes...
...kernels of corn for the hungry child, the drippings from the mouth of the merciful mule! . . . These people are going to suffer beyond the power of human language to portray. . . . When did these picayunish objections to feeding the hungry first appear? They appeared when the income tax payers became afraid of an increase in taxes...