Word: fees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farm Board by "drafting" as its wheat member Samuel Roy McKelvie, Republican, Methodist, Mason, Odd Fellow, Elk, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska, where he is still known as a "political farmer." No wheat-grower, he publishes the Nebraska Farmer through which he preaches his agricultural gospel: no equalization fee; no debenture; the farmer must help himself. Wheat growers had rowed so long among themselves over a representative on the Hoover board that the President, impatient, picked Mr. McKelvie as his own compromise. Aged 48 and conservative. Mr. McKelvie anticipated that the reduction of the wheat crop by parching weather...
Chosen as F. N. G. C. organizer was William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, the man who led the "Equalization Fee March" around the Republican National Convention hall last year in Kansas City. Ever an enthusiast, Organizer Settle said last week in Chicago: "This is the greatest day in the history of agriculture since I can remember. . . . This is what we have been dreaming for years?united action? and it's the first time it has been realized. . . . President Hoover is sincerely trying to carry out the pledge he made...
Hyde. U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde addressed the teachers, expounded the Hoover interpretation of such shopworn terms as Equalization Fee, Debenture Plan, Federal Farm Board, Cooperatives. He begged his hearers "to aid in . . . answering the . . . compelling cry: 'I am an American farmer...
...Wallace Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa, the sum of $11.25 for a perpetual subscription. Just when the plan was announced I do not recall, but I did not respond at once because I had been subscribing on the multiple-year at-reduced-rates basis and did not send the fee for "perpetual" until my prior subscription had run out. The Wallace Publishing Company has sent the paper regularly since, and will continue to do so at my pleasure as long as they publish the paper, and the company in addition sent me as to all other "perpetuals" a certificate entitling...
...Manhattan, Dr. Joseph Thoms called on a Chinese patient, Tom Yin, asked for a fee. Tom Yin shot him five times, poured scalding water on his head, fled. Dr. Thoms is in a hospital, Tom Yin in jail...