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Significant new face in Minnesota politics: eloquent, statesmanlike Dr. Walter H. Judd, 44, who spent the better part of a decade in China as a medical missionary, watched the war in the Far East, returned to the U.S. in 1938 to stump for a boycott and embargo against Japan. In Minnesota's Fifth District last week, Newcomer Judd won the Republican nomination for Congress nearly 3-to-2 over excitable, table-pounding incumbent Oscar Youngdahl, who did not recognize the Japanese menace until last...
...this year's crop to rot for want of storage space. Consequently, some wheat farmers are already shifting family furniture and livestock, are stuffing wheat into spare rooms, pigsties and woodsheds. More prosperous growers rented empty stores. Meanwhile overworked Western railroads are planning a complete embargo on wheat shipments unless a farmer can prove he has arranged for storage space at the terminal. Harvesting this year's wheat will take thousands of workers whose labor is needed in other fields. Besides, much of the wheat acreage would have been far better used for crops like soybeans, flaxseed, alfalfa...
...have long guessed it from the state of their grocers' shelves. Even No. 1 U.S. coffee merchant A. & P. had to turn away customers from many stores, finally borrowed some Colombian coffee stored on Staten Island. The stuff got so scarce that huge General Foods slapped a temporary embargo on Maxwell House last month, had to refuse to make any deliveries until a few days ago. Like sugar and gasoline, the coffee shortage is really a transportation shortage. The U.S. normally uses 12-15,000,000 bags* of coffee a year-all of it imported. At least half comes...
Montana's arch-isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler voted against repeal of the arms embargo, against Lend-Lease, against draft extension; he protested loudly when U.S. destroyers were traded to Britain, when U.S. troops took over Iceland; he scoffed at the idea of an attack on the U.S. or that such an attack could cut off the nation from strategic materials. Last week, when Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard told a Senate subcommittee that 80,000,000 bushels of wheat could be made available for manufacture of synthetic rubber, angry Senator Wheeler wanted to know why the delay...
Mexican-born, merchants for bombs, grenades, guns, other lethal wares of war, the Miranda Bros, were jailed in 1940 for selling munitions destined for Bolivia in violation of an arms embargo in the Gran Chaco War. Never idle, even in jail, the Mirandas arranged to handle sales for the Hayes Manufacturing Co. (airplane parts) of Grand Rapids, Mich. They got Hayes an order for parts from Brewster Aeronautical Corp. Their own commission was 5%. Out of jail, they joined Partner Zelcer in their Manhattan office, and arranged with Brewster to handle the sale abroad of its Buffalo fighters. They operated...