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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farmers looked at what they got, at what they had asked and frowned. Flaxseed had been held at 56¢ per lb. when they had demanded an 84¢ duty. Their 15¢ butter rate had been spurned. They found hides still on the free list and no provision for obstructing the free importation of vegetable oils from the Philippines. Where they had asked for an 8¢ duty on casein, the House Committee gave them a 2½¢ duty. The U. S. husbandman's representatives were loud with the U. S. husbandman's disgust...
...pine, spruce and hemlock were retained on the free list, other kinds of lumber were put under the tariff, with cedar shingles paying 25% ad valorem. The Oregon shingle industry asked for protection against Canadian imports. Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee, also of Oregon, saw that it got what it wanted. Quick came the claim that the farmer's new profits under the bill would be immediately absorbed by increased costs in building material, paint, clothing, special foods and the like...
After breakfast he was fingerprinted, given No. 10,520 and assigned to the jail pharmacy by Superintendent William L. Peake. Thirty years ago in Kansas, before he shot his foot and got the insurance money that started him in the oil game, Harry Ford Sinclair was a registered pharmacist. Now he was given a white coat and set to rolling quinine pills for sick convicts, of which there were seven in the jail last week...
Consider, by way of contrast, what would be the attitude of the House Masters towards the Freshmen if the first year men were assigned directly to the Houses. They would be vitally interested, each year, in their new material, and in moulding it after they got it, because they will not be something else first and House Masters second, but they will be House Masters first, last, and all the time. Their reputations are going to depend on the records made in all the fields of college activity, by the students under their care. It will be of immense importance...
...narrow passage between a car parked on one side of the road and a large mudhole on the other. But a winter's inactivity must have impaired his driving eye, for with a lurch and a slither the front wheel buried itself in the mud, and when the Vagabond got out to see the damage only a few grimy spokes emerged from the depth. Always helpless where mechanical resourcefulness is needed, the Vagabond made a few futile attempts at digging with a jack handle and then sat down on the running board to await in patience the arrival...