Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joint efforts of all New York S. P. C. A.'s were rewarded in the Shonk-Thompson Act, which declares illegal the possession or exhibition in New York State of crop-eared dogs...
...McKelvie's was the last difficult appointment. Twenty-seven Senators voted against his confirmation. Their complaint was that he was not a real wheat farmer, that he knew nothing about wheat farming, that he was out of sympathy with Federal aid for those who did produce this crop. His most bitter opponent was his fellow Nebraskan, Senator George William Norris, whose candidacy for the Presidency he did not take seriously last year. Confirmation of the Board did not materially clear up all the uncertainties which confront this new Federal agency. In Washington the feeling persisted that the Board...
Eager California newsgatherers boarded a train at Santa Barbara last week and rudely interrupted Berlin's crop-headed, saber-scarred Mayor Gustav Boess in a pinochle game...
...year in Paris, three decorous months at their massive Baroque mansions in Rio de Janeiro, and the remaining half year supervising their estates. Most of these rich men hail from Sāo Paulo, "The State With a Billion Coffee Trees," which produces over half the world's crop. Most of them believe firmly in the efficacy of a combination in restraint of trade to keep prices high. For over two decades they have been perfecting a combination-really a gigantic, cooperative Coffee Trust-which the world has found hard to beat. By systematic hoarding...
...included the buying and storing in State warehouses of Brazil's coffee surplus for a number of years, until today the Government of President Washington Luis is saddled with a stupendous hoard of coffee supposed to exceed 13 million bags -as much as an average year's crop...