Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What the figures do not and cannot show is added expenses which Congress may vote; the appropriation of large sums already authorized, such as the $350,000,000 which the Federal Farm Board may call for at any time...
...great industrialist before them as a witness in his own behalf. He had resigned (for as long as necessary) from the $100,000-per-year presidency of International Harvester Co. ($350,000,000) to accept President Hoover's appointment as $12,000-per-year chairman of the Federal Farm Board. The Senators had the power to question him closely in deciding whether he was fit for the job. It was the chance of a session if not of a Senatorial term for such friends-of-the-farmer as Montana's Wheeler, North Dakota's Frazier, South Dakota...
They asked him why the Federal Farm Board had been so slow in extending to farmers the $500,000,000 credit at its disposal. Chairman Legge replied: "It took Congress eight years to pass farm legislation. The Board should be given a little more than two months to accomplish what is expected...
While the Senators continued pondering Chairman Legge and similarly "hazing" his colleagues, the Farm Board took a few more steps...
Wheat. To the wheat-marketing associations engaged in organizing the National Farm Grain Growers Association, the Board expressed hope that they would hurry up, present a final plan for the Board to approve...