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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your fundamental purpose must be to determine the facts and find solution of a multitude of agricultural problems. ... All this cannot be accomplished by a magic wand or by an overnight action. . . . You are the representatives of organized agriculture itself. . . . I invest you with responsibility, authority and resources such as have never before been conferred by our government in assistance of any industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: From Scratch | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Farm Board off on its long task of jacking husbandry up out of its economic bog. The President met the Board for an hour in the Cabinet Room. One place on the Board remained vacant: A member to represent Wheat, whom President Hoover had not yet been able to find. Two last-minute Board appointees: William Frank Schilling of Northfield, Minn, to represent Dairy Interests; Charles S. Wilson of Hall, N. Y. to represent truck-gardeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: From Scratch | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Back in 1914 when U. S. War-Correspondent Richard Harding Davis looked out of his Brussels hotel window to find the streets flowing with the quiet grey river of General von Bissing's soldiery, Belgian banks were seized, Belgian gold and money were removed from the vaults, German paper marks planted in their place. In 1918, with the fall of Imperial Germany, these marks became worthless. All through the long meetings of the Second Dawes Commission this year, peppery Emile Franqui, chief of the Belgian delegation, insistently demanded that redemption of the worthless marks be included in the Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Belgian Marks | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...White Cloud. Fantasy and symbolism, wherein 27 war orphans find their fathers all gold-clothed on a white cloud. Says a father: "Back home the village thinks that [war is] all bugles and flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Does the Commission find . . . that I have been affiliated with seditious organizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Again, Paul Jones | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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