Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tools of production. Is this to be the future of the American farmer? It may be, but some of us who recall the original purposes of this nation cannot receive the suggestion with any enthusiasm. To us, the chief crop of American farmers is not wheat or oats or corn, but men. The best of our leadership in church and state in the past has been produced upon farms owned by the men who tilled them. Just how much leadership, spiritual and intellectual, are we producing in factories? Are we willing to sacrifice the character-building qualities of our present...
...farmers' friend strategy was to get the Senate on record generally in favor of some sort of tariff reduction, and then to hitch tariff riders to the tax bill. The riders were to lower the tariff on aluminum and steel, to raise it on farm products such as corn and perhaps mollasses (corn's competitor as a source of industrial alcohol...
...State. It is not only fundamental to all other industries, but it is a big and important industry in itself." He called attention to the fact that New York, though twentieth among the states in farming area, stands eight in total farm production. In potatoes, hay and sweet corn it leads; in dairy products, apples, grapes and total value of vegetables it stands second...
...latter would be negotiable receipts issued by marketing agencies to farmers who market their crops abroad. Senator Caraway's suggestion is that the debentures should be used by the crop-exporters to buy imports duty-free, thus settling the tariff argument. The National Grange urges a tariff upon corn imported to the U. S. from South America...
...borough of Queens has had for its president since 1911 a corpulent Irish-American, Maurice E. Connolly, whose father used to hoe corn and dig potatoes where all is apartment buildings, pavements and sewers today. President Connolly, next-to-youngest in a family of eight, climbed to fame by willing work for the politicians whom he found in power when he emerged from the public schools and Columbia University's law department...