Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practically all the clamor was for increased duties. Chester H. Gray, chief lobbyist of the American Farm Bureau Federation, called for general upward revisions averaging 100% higher than present rates on agricultural commodities. The argument, in effect, was: "We want these rates?because we want them." Few if any witnesses paused long enough on the stand to give reasons, to detail the difficulties of foreign competition, comparative costs of production. The fanner's attitude was that he was entitled to these increases by virtue of his vote for Herbert Hoover and that technical explanations were nonessential...
Thus it went until some 260 "farm" witnesses had been heard, each revealing some angle of the misery and distress of citizens of their incomparably prosperous country...
Heflin, Klu Klux Klan, free silver, William Jennings Bryan, prohibition, woman suffrage, McNary-Haugen farm relief may all be classed as attempts at reform. They have shared in common: lofty purpose, great zeal, and not a little oratory. Senator Oscar W. Underwood was opposed to each and every one of them. He saw something dangerous in them all. He felt that their purposes were not worth their methods. He was a complete Jeffersonian, and a quiet one at that...
...survey is being made of the Charles River Basin in order to secure a course nearer the Boston side where the water is more calm. If its is possible to do so, a two mile course without any curves may be laid out starting near the new Cottage Farm Bridge and ending at the Cambridge Bridge. The present course is one and three quarter miles in length...
...back the "Utowana" will stop at Tela, Honduras, where the expedition will visit the snake farm maintained by Harvard, the Antivenim Institute of America, and the United Fruit Company. From there he will go to Cuba to the Harvard Biological Laboratory and Botanical Garden at Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba...