Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Theis worked for the AAA in the days when ploughing crops under was the New Deal's only way of fighting surpluses. After the Supreme Court ploughed that first AAA under in 1936, Frank Theis sold wheat in Kansas City, Mo., and the Government began fighting surpluses by stimulating distribution rather than just limiting production. Last week, Frank Theis and the U. S. Government were back together again-on the front pages of Rio de Janeiro newspapers...
Thus, while Frank Theis was out to do business for the firm of which he is president (Simonds, Shields & Lonsdale), he was also furthering the Government's efforts to cut down the huge U. S. wheat surplus-estimated for 1938 at 190,000,000 bushels. He consulted FSCC before announcing his plan...
...Frank Theis prepared to sail for Rio, rumor circulated that he was going to trade U. S. wheat for Brazilian coffee. The U. S. has heard a lot lately about European, particularly German, barter with South America and Mexico (machinery for oil and crops); so it seemed reasonable for U. S. traders to defend themselves with similar tactics. But last week the Brazilian Government emphatically denied the rumor. President Getulio Vargas announced that the Government's new coffee policy (like the -U. S., Brazil found crop limitation a failure, now ruthlessly dumps its coffee surplus abroad) had been...
...great exhibition of punting by Yale end John Miller and Harvard's Austie Harding and Frank Foley has kept the session seesawing back and forth. Early in the second period the Harlowmen had their best chance to score, when Harding tossed a 20-yard aerial to Captain Bob Green, who lateralled to Torb Macdonald, advancing the pigskin to the enemy 17-yard stripe. An interception by Anderson foiled the threat...
Captain Green, Cliff Wilson, Don Daughters, Ken Booth, Austie Harding, Frank Foley, Dave Glueck, Nick Mellen, Tim Russell, Chief Boston, Mike Cohen, Ben Smith, Win Jameson, Jim Fearon and Bob Burnett played their last game for Harvard. They will meet tomorrow with Joe Gardella, Torb Macdonald, Tom Healey, Bill Coleman, Mose Hallett and don Lowry, the other lettermen, to elect next year's captain