Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In these days of much ado about Farm Relief, you may be interested in what the Guernsey breeders have to say about it. In their picnic at River Falls, Wis., on June 4 as you will note on the attached sheet, they sang to the good old tune "I've been working on the railroad" the lines on the enclosure. May I suggest as a headline, "Udder Nonsense...
Today old friends can get together, at River Falls right now. We're here to boost the golden Guernsey The world's best dairy cow. No farm relief we need be asking, at night or early in the morn, Because we milk the golden Guernsey Till Gabriel blows his horn...
...situation confronted the Republican committee members who, general revisionists all, were spoiling to get their hands on the bill, to tear apart the House's handiwork, to frame a measure all their own. Farm-state Senators, Republicans and Democrats, had formed a Borah Bloc on the tariff, were definitely on the offensive and plotting trouble...
...achieve that 9% farm protection by increasing farm rates, reducing industrial rates, equalizing protection in the manner promised by President Hoover, was the purpose of the Borah Bloc. With characteristic caution Senator Borah himself kept out of the Progressive-Democratic coalition, which he had inspired, though he gave it his benediction, promised future assistance...
...Nebraska's Senator Norris and Democratic-Leader Robinson the bloc constituted a powerful combination of votes virtually the same as had for so long tormented President Hoover with the Export Debenture Plan in the Farm Bill. It took its name from the support it gave last week to a Borah resolution to instruct the Finance Committee to confine tariff revision to the farm schedule. Last week it held informal meetings, laid plans, apportioned among its membership the special study of different schedules for technical contests on the Senate bloc, prepared to scatter through the land to stump against...