Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shelved once by the 68th Congress, voted down and then passed by the 69th Congress, and finally vetoed last year by President Coolidge. The controversial nub of the scheme is illustrated in the pig-selling problem set up above. The pig men are U. S. farmers-raisers of livestock, grain, cotton, tobacco. The philanthropist is the U. S. President Coolidge has been willing that the Government should set up a loan fund and a farm board to administer it. He has been unwilling that the U. S. should engage to administer the equalization fee, which he construes as involving price...
When months are cold, placid Donna Rachele Mussolini dwells with her children in Milan; but with approaching spring she moves out to the Mussolini estate at Forli, where, each summer, Il Duce indulges in a brief fit of farm labor which he calls "fighting the battle of the grain." At such times, and during the Christmas and Easter visits of Signor Mussolini to Milan, it is possible that he is persuaded, cajoled, nagged. But he is only known to have yielded once. On this occasion-just prior to the birth of Babe Romano-Donna Mussolini begged and received a decree...
...everyone knows, the recent "speculators' famine" was broken by sending through the provinces bands of strong-arm grain collectors who literally forced the peasants to sell their hoarded grain at the fixed prices offered by the State...
...Grain Hoarding. Secondly M. Stalin announced that unrelenting pressure would be maintained upon the Peasant Squires or "Fists" who hoarded their grain during the last three months of 1927 and finally produced something very like an artificial famine (TIME...
...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...