Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of War Davis appeared, to tell about Hawaii's forts and sesquicentennial celebration. The Lakes-to-Atlantic seaway, as an outlet for Midland farm produce, was also on the Secretary's mind. He issued a statement in behalf of the St. Lawrence River route as against the Mohawk Valley-Hudson River route...
Chairman Eugene Meyer of the Federal Farm Loan Board stopped in on his annual western tour. Again the Farm Problem received highest official contemplation...
Seeing the farmers caused Mr. Raskob to ejaculate that the Farm Problem is indeed a Problem. He talked about his Eastern issue, Prohibition, hardly at all and assured the Midwesterners that they need not give it a thought during the campaign...
Then he made a Farm Relief speech. He mentioned that, in 1921, the Republican Secretary of Agriculture (Henry Cantwell Wallace) recommended the first of the fiercely-disputed McNary-Haugen Bills and that President Coolidge vetoed the two McNary-Haugen Bills which Congress passed. He contended Herbert Hoover favored U. S. agricultural production for Home Demand, as opposed to World Demand. He said...
...homeland there is little ... to do except farm and fish," said Manxman Cain. U. S. Manxmen, headed by Manxman Daniel Teare, did not favor this proposal. Said Manxman Teare: "I am an American as well as a Manxman and if we started making a separate quota for every little community the size of the Isle of Man, where would we be?" At the final session, however, the North American Manx Association was organized, with constitution and officers; its president was A. B. Crookall...