Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evidently referring to shouts by American Farm Bureau Federation delegates at General Pershing last month in Chicago (TIME Dec. 26, 1927): "You're Presidential timber! You're a candidate for President!" General Pershing said: "What...
...total number of measures introduced in the House was 8,459. Notable among last week's grist for the bill mill were three proposed Navy inquiries prompted by the S-4 disaster; a new farm-relief bill by Representative Haugen of Iowa; a Mississippi flood-control bill, by Chairman Reid of the Flood-Control Committee, calling for Federal payment of the entire program instead of only 80% as urged by the administration...
...Seibig (president, United Banking & Trust Co.), Thomas H. Hogsett (attorney). On the directorate of the merged New York and New Jersey banks will be one-time (1915-27) Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York and onetime Senator (1917-23) Joseph Frelinghuysen of New Jersey. The Federal Farm Loan Board (Eugene Meyer, chairman), cooperates with the joint stock land banks in extending credit on long and relatively easy terms to farmers. Cans. Appraisers last week studied the worth of U. S. Can Co.'s factories at Cincinnati, Baltimore, Roanoke, Chicago and St. Louis, and of the factories belonging...
...prevent hypocrisy"-a modification of the McNary-Haugen farm-relief plan, substituting for that plan's equalization fee an exchange of export debentures for negotiable customs certificates which would permit farmers to import dutiable merchandise duty-free.-Democrat Caraway of Arkansas...
...Presidential timber! You're a candidate for President!" cried American Farm Bureau Federation delegates, last fortnight in Chicago, at General John Joseph Pershing. General Pershing's teeth flashed but he said nothing. Newsgatherers followed him to his hotel. Said he: "What can I say? I do not talk politics and there is no statement I can make...