Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said South Carolina's adroit Jimmy Byrnes: "No cotton farmer and no wheat farmer can compete [for labor] with WPA wages...
...Yugoslavia, during recent floods, Farmer Dragoutin Milovic decided that world's end was imminent, built himself an ark. When the floods subsided, the Government confiscated the ark for nonpayment of taxes...
...continued: "The basic reason why farm prices and incomes have averaged no higher, over a run of years, is that farmers' goods and services are available in larger quantities than people are willing to pay for at rates the farmer wants to get. Prices and incomes low in money terms are society's way of putting pressure on the weaker farmers to quit. If this form of pressure is lifted, some other form of pressure, here or elsewhere, must be exerted...
...Auckland riot with British bluejackets from H. M. S. Philomel and with 1,200 special constables swinging brand-new truncheons. His helplessness in the face of continued depression made him unpopular, and in 1935 the Laborites got a majority and a Prime Minister-a stocky, alert, pudgy-faced farmer's son named Michael Joseph Savage. Before becoming Prime Minister he had been a messenger boy, dam-laborer, miner; after he became Prime Minister, other things shook New Zealand besides earthquakes...
Muriel Fane, dull, constantly depressed daughter of John; and Henry Morton, a dreary hop-farmer. Hops slump, she has children; between them they are so comfortably, wholeheartedly gloomy that the marriage survives...