Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Patterson of Missouri complained that he was not even notified by the President at the appointments of two important Missourians-Dwight Filley Davis as Governor-General of the Philippines ; C. B. Denman as a member of the Federal Farm Board. Senator Patterson's first inkling of this "patronage" came from newsmen...
...Federal Farm Board last week dipped deep into its capacious pocket and drew forth $100,000,000 for wheatmen throughout the land. It was Husbandry's biggest loan. If this sum were not enough to help cooperative associations stabilize the wheat market, the Board promised to ask Congress to advance more of its $350,000,000 credit still untouched...
...wheat market, to the Farm Board's large concern, has been on the down grade of late. In the Chicago pit last week prices for December delivery slid from $1.25 per bu. to $1.13, recovered somewhat, closed at $1.23 per bu. Last July the same wheat stood...
...From the point of view of the Italian Fascist, parliamentary government is on its last legs, for neither in England or France has any party a majority; even in America the insurgents or the farm bloc could put the Senate in an analagous position...
Curley Pickett has been a farm hand for the last two years in Corsicana, Tex. Before that he was an elephant trainer for the Al. G. Barnes circus where his special charge was Black Diamond, a land elephant. Last week Farm Hand Pickett, learning that the old circus was coming to town, invited his employer, Mrs. Eva Donohue, to see Black Diamond. When they arrived at the circus the elephants were being unloaded. They stood by and watched. Black Diamond spied them, gave Pickett a malevolent look, wrapped him in his trunk and tossed him over...