Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coach Samborski, and have enjoyed a fairly successful season. Outstanding names that will bear watching are Dampeer, Snell, and Litman. The sum of it all is that, what with a steadily improving coach, and an ambitious and hard-driving one also, a new, and in many respects improved crop of players, and a crop of small Feslers on the way, the sun is still rising on Harvard basketball...
...Deal arrived in March, 1933, the Farm Board was severely denounced for its unwisdom. Mr. Morgenthau, our present Secretary of the Treasury, as Farm Commissioner, took over the old Farm Board. He said that the thing for the farmers to do was always to market their old crop before growing...
...Primed & pointed was Lawyer Hogan when the oil scandals of the 1920's raised up a bumper crop of rich men who were thoroughly scared. In 1926 Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny reputedly paid Lawyer Hogan $1,000,000 for persuading a Washington jury to acquit him and onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall of a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in the leasing of the Elk Hills naval oil reserves. Next year Lawyer Hogan tried & failed to keep the U. S. Supreme Court from indignantly canceling that lease on grounds of conspiracy and fraud...
...tenant farmer in Jefferson County was unable, because of old age and illness, to work out his crop. A physician prescribed for his ailment, but the man could not buy the medicine, and no relief agency would supply it. A four-year-old girl in the family died at the end of the year of anemia. The tenant moved several miles away to another farm, but after several weeks the landowner decided that he was too old and ill to work a crop on a tenant-farmer basis, or on any other basis, and he was evicted...
...modest man. Backed by an imposing array of hard fact, cold logic and concrete results, it is intended to give conquering impetus to a great campaign. Its avowed purpose is nothing less than "to do for animal husbandry in the 20th Century as much as was done for crop farming in the 19th Century by the invention of agricultural machinery." It was written by a rich, disputatious, immensely learned old gentleman named E. (for Ezra) Parmelee Prentice, who is a son-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller...