Word: farms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney General Frank Murphy's right arm reached deep into Louisiana again last week, brought forth from a Gold Coast farm (exotically stocked with Russian caracul sheep) the huge 242-lb. frame of ex-Governor Richard W. Leche, indicted him for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in an illegal $148,000 sale of State-owned oil lands, for which he allegedly received a $67,000 cut. Beefy Mr. Leche, always known to the late Huey Long as "Jughead," and a one-third inheritor of Huey's empire, had suddenly resigned his Governorship in June after 37 months...
...outside the South were far from unemployed. Food prices rose even higher than the prices of industrial goods. As more and more wheat lands went out of production in Europe, wheat reached a dizzy $2.33 a bushel, and U. S. farmers borrowed heavily to increase their acreage; the total farm mortgage debt for the U. S. increased from $3,320,470,000 in 1910 to $7,857,700,000 in 1920. And during this same War decade the average value of farm land in the U. S. rose from $39.60 an acre...
...farm problem is one of the New Deal's gravest. U. S. surpluses of corn and wheat would vanish like magic at ever rising prices. Greatest of all present economic problems is unemployment. During a prolonged war the problem would be to find not jobs but men-WPA would become a fantastic memory of an archaic era. The political as well as the economic problems of U. S. life would be entirely different...
...Yankees' outstanding pitcher, 26-year-old Atley Donald, is even more of a dark horse and even more of a twirlwind. Brought up from the minor-league Newark team last spring to learn the ways of the Big Time, the earnest Louisiana farm boy, who had gone uninvited to the Yankee training camp five years before to beg Manager Joe McCarthy for a tryout, was completely overshadowed by the famed Yankee pitching roster of Lefty Gomez, Red Ruffing, Monte Pearson and a half dozen others...
...offended by the noisome proximity of a hog farm to his Montecito, Calif, estate that he complained he had to use smelling salts, well-nosed Maestro Leopold Antoni Stanislaw ("Stoky") Stokowski appealed to the law, had the hogs evicted...