Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agricultural surplus is indicated by the fact that to make it would consume all of the wheat raised in the U. S.; or on the other hand all of the oats, barley, rye and white potatoes; or on the other hand from one-third to one-half of the corn...
...Alexandre Dumas Fils, "La Dame aux Camelias" is not only an excellent moving picture, but it affords American audiences an opportunity of seeing the lovely Yvonne Printempts in her native element. It may be the last such opportunity, for Miss Printemps is soon to walk among the alien corn of Hollywood, and what sort of screen vehicles her mentors there will give her, none can tell...
...hands, brown faces and shaved necks climbed down from the Pullmans, filed into the Department to wait for Secretary Wallace, the Great White Father of Agriculture, to come to work. Soon the capital was swarming with cotton planters from Texas, wheat growers from Kansas, North Carolina tobacco men, Iowa corn-hoggers. For with their benefit checks in jeopardy, the farmers had rallied to Cliff Day's convention with a will...
...planning" and a South Carolinian had pledged "we have come to praise and not to condemn" when the nation's No. 1 Farmer stood up to address "the finest farm meeting I ever attended." Amid a storm of happy hog-calls, that agricultural editor and corn-raising expert, Henry Agard Wallace, began by proposing the "reelection of Theodore Roosevelt." Recovering the fumble, the Secretary of Agriculture blushingly explained that "in 1912 I was a Bull Mooser myself." Any forensic slip the Secretary might have made was forgotten when he began assailing "the big boys who want to take away...
...CRIME IN CORN WEATHER-Mary M. Atwater-Hought on Mifflin ($2). When old man Breen was killed no one mourned, many had cause to be glad. The little Iowa town's biggest excitement in years made a countywide field-day, but defeated its purpose. A beautifully subtle description of townsfolk, of why murder was done and why neither police nor press knew...