Word: fanners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only one-quarter exceed $1,200 per year, the Department of Agriculture's "minimum wage" for a farm family. Reason for low income: For every dollar the consumer pays for food, about 30 cents gets back to the farmer, 70 cents going for transportation, marketing, etc. The fanner gets no more because, ambitious, he grows too much, puts it up for sale. With all farmers doing this, a surplus is created, depressing prices. The farmer markets his goods individually, thus entrenching a sloppy fluctuating marketing system. Congress is now called to remedy this situation, to provide "relief." The remedy...
...upward revisions averaging 100% higher than present rates on agricultural commodities. The argument, in effect, was: "We want these rates?because we want them." Few if any witnesses paused long enough on the stand to give reasons, to detail the difficulties of foreign competition, comparative costs of production. The fanner's attitude was that he was entitled to these increases by virtue of his vote for Herbert Hoover and that technical explanations were nonessential...
...death on March 24 of Senator Samuel D. Nicholson of Colorado deprives the Republicans of another vote in the next Senate. In the new Congress the Republicans had, until the death of Senator Nicholson, 53 Senators; the Democrats, 42; and the Fanner-Laborites, 1. Governor Sweet of Colorado, who must appoint a successor to Senator Nicholson, is a Democrat sponsored by the Nonpartisan League. Senators Ladd, Frazier, Shipstead, Wheeler, Howell, Brookhart and La Follette were also sponsored by the League. Consequently it is expected that a radical Democrat will be appointed to the vacancy caused by Senator Nicholson...