Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Population. "Farm population . . . smallest in 20 years. . . . In 1928 a net movement of 598,000 from farms to cities...
...Employment Service recruited 541,280 seasonal workers-cotton, apple, strawberry pickers, wheat, potato, sugar beet harvesters-also 18,291 general farm workers...
...Representatives, where all appropriations must originate, President Hoover sent his first Budget, providing for the fiscal year 1931.* Chief figure of the Hoover budget: $3,830,445,231, the Government's estimated expenditure for next year, exclusive of a postal deficit and additional outlay for the Federal Farm Board. Comparatively, this amount is $4,304,000 greater than current actual expenditures. Said President Hoover: "Our finances are in a sound condition." He envisaged surpluses of 225 million this year, 122 million next, reiterated his tax reduction recommendation...
...Aids and subsidies-13? ($511,193,070, covering expenditures made in behalf of public health, education, Indians, farm relief, commercial aviation, merchant marine, trade and industry, public buildings...
Harold Fowler McCormick, Chicago farm machinery man, and his sister Mrs. Anita McCormick Elaine, testified in Santa Barbara, Cal., about the mental health and care of their brother, Stanley McCormick, whose wife was trying to change his doctor and oust the brother and sister as co-executors of his $50,000,000 estate. Said Mr. McCormick: "Stanley's mind has always been unimpaired but there has been an interruption between the processes of his mind . . . tremendous mental conflict." He told how he once took his mother, the late Mrs. Cyrus McCormick Sr., to a hill hard by the Santa...