Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: Youngest of a farmer's brood of eight, George McGill was moved from Iowa to Kansas at the age of 4, hoed and harvested on his father's farm until he left to work his way through Central Normal College at Great Bend, Kans. and to study...
...scrupulous legislator, Senator McGill always records his vote, regularly attends the meetings of his five committees-Agriculture, Judiciary, Immigration, Naval Affairs, and Pensions (of which he is chairman). In committee he has furthered his two legislative interests: more money for veterans and the cause of the wheat farmer. He wrote the wheat sections of the Pope-McGill Farm Bill (the second AAA), defended them in the longest speech he ever made in Congress...
When Negro Tenant Farmer Less Taylor won a judgment against his landlord, J. W. Copeland, the case was appealed, is still pending. No other such suits in Mississippi have been reported.-ED. Clock...
...Annie Massey, 53, of Bay Springs, Miss. on one stretch of her 50 mi., 165-box route, has to travel 17 miles and cross: eleven bridges in an area of one squre mile); in marveling at the streamlined never-stick R. F. D. box displayed at the convention by Farmer Adney Coleman of Evergreen, Ala., which looked as if it really wouldn't jam up and be a nuisance in bad weather...
...basis of past performances, the two outstanding U. S. trapshooters last week were 31-year-old Joe Hiestand of Hillsboro, Ohio, and 31-year-old Lela Hall of Strasburg, Mo. (pop. 144). During the week Farmer Hiestand broke 900 clay pigeons without a miss for a new world's record long run of 966, including 200 straight in the North American men's championship, which he won for the third time. Housewife Hall, who has ample time to practice because her husband owns a restaurant, has been called the best shot since Annie Oakley. During 1937 she shot...