Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Farm Board, composed of the Secretary of Agriculture and a member from each of the twelve U. S. Land Bank districts, appointed by the President. This Board was to administer the loan fund and help co-operative marketing associations to cope with surplus crops...
...that Candidate Meredith, whom Candidate Smith was reported to have trounced at county conventions last fortnight, disputed the Smith victory and scented a "plot." In the U. S. Senate up stood James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, and denounced the Smith campaign fund as the "most corrupt ever used in a Presidential campaign." Senator Heflin wanted the Senate to investigate. He said: "I want to get Jimmy Walker first. He is the slickest eel in the pond." Mayor Walker of New York ignored Senator Heflin. From Iowa came the Smith...
...control such a surplus, the Board, through the co-operative marketing associations, would first loan money from the fund to help withhold the crop until domestic demand increased, or to "dump" the surplus abroad. In effect, the Government would thus be a buyer and seller of grain...
...Federal fund from which farmers' co-operative marketing associations might borrow...
...impossible to determine. A year ago people would have said that he was buying for Henry Edwards Huntington, rich California collector; last week Dr. Rosenbach was probably bidding for his own firm. After offering Alice to the British Museum, Dr. Rosenbach added ?1,000 to the national fund for buying it from...