Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mississippi. There were business boosters from St. Louis, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge; rooster-boosters from Cairo, Keokuk, Dubuque and Quincy. There were a policemen's octet, a quartet of Pullman porters, an Italian band dressed as sailors. One and all wore huge bullseye badges inscribed "America First," "Farm Relief," "Inland Waterways to Double Exports," "National Flood Control to Prevent Disasters." Singing, grinning, shouting, backslapping, this horde converged upon the Mayflower Hotel in an uproarious phalanx around their loudly lumbering leader, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago...
Stallion, Slave. From Ibn Saud Husein, King of the Hejaz, to "Salubria," horse farm of Rear...
...Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas charged the Association with responsibility for defeat of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. The bankers denied it and refused Senator Caraway permission to further address the convention...
Elsa excused herself, told herself the union was for practical reasons. If she had been willing to go on as a grubbing farm girl, she insisted in her thoughts, she would have married an employe of the Carews, an eerie cowboy with a magic guitar whose dynamic physique had created a great longing in her. Bayliss meant external luxury, and she took him in form only. But the capitulation of sensitive women to such men as the Mad Carews is as inevitable as the failure of crops in Elders Hollow, the Bowers' poor farm land, be the men tenfold...
...followed the situation closely are compelled to recognize today-with distinct surprise, perhaps-that agriculture is . no longer the dominant activity of the South. Manufacture has outstripped it and the value of mineral products is high. . . . Mississippi and Arkansas alone among the southern states show a higher value for farm products than for manufactures and minerals...