Word: grained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Addis Ababa last week the Italian radio station passed correspondents' dispatches conveying the bad news that Ethiopian peasants are sowing practically no grain or coffee, "because they fear it will be confiscated by the Italians or brigands." Viceroy Graziani was reported to have appointed a commission to study ways & means of getting the peasants to plant again. "Rumors that a provisional Ethiopian Government has been formed in the West are ridiculed here," read an Addis Ababa dispatch from United Pressman James Rohrbaugh: "The natives in the unoccupied regions are not fighting against the Italians, but among themselves. The Ethiopians...
Left. By Arthur William Cutten, late Chicago grain speculator (TIME, July 6); to Mrs. Maude Boomer Cutten; an estate valued at $350,000. Chicago's U. S. District Attorney announced he would attach the estate for $644,469 unpaid income taxes...
...Toussaint was a buxom Cajun widow with seven children, and well along in years (she was 28). She had not thought seriously of marrying again, but when a fine young fellow like Jean asked her, she said yes. On her wedding day, though it went much against the grain, she thought it more fitting not to go out with the fishing fleet but to sit at home in idle dignity. Mme Toussaint soon found the hours dragging, found herself worrying about the new sleeping arrangements. The little cabin was already crowded: her daughter, almost grownup, slept in the same room...
Alarm, Marketing co-operatives like California Fruit Growers Exchange, Farm ers National Grain Corp. and Land O' Lakes Creamery were not included in the conference, which was solely concerned with consumer cooperatives. Though marketing co-operatives often get into the consumer field by purchasing for their farmer-members, their fundamental inter ests are directly opposed to those of consumer cooperatives...
Died. Arthur William Cutten, 65, Chicago grain speculator, "Little Giant of the Wheat Pit"; of heart disease; in Chicago. Last month he retired from the Board of Trade, after the Supreme Court reversed his suspension by the U. S. Grain Futures Administration on a charge of holding 116,000,000 bu. of undeclared wheat futures...