Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Karl M. Davies, 18, of 4304 South Lyndale avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.; Washburn High School; son of Ralph M. Davies, grain commission merchant; ranked first among boys in his class; editor of school annual, and leader in other school activities...
...Detroit, after he had lost $2,000 in Government bonds at a revival service, the Rev. William H. Grain said. "I can't understand it. I had them tucked away in my sock, with the bottom of my long underwear pulled down tight over the sock. Mind you, though, I don't suspect any of the brethren...
Died. Gray Silver, 64, farmer, banker, lobbyist, onetime (1907-15) West Virginia State Senator, onetime head of U. S. Grain Marketing Corp. of Chicago; of a heart attack; in Martinsburg, W. Va. As Washington representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation in 1920, Lobbyist Silver became known as "the man who runs the farm bloc...
Paul O'Higgins was a onetime Rivera assistant. He has taken for his theme the Peasant's Economic Struggle, showing in broad cartoon masses the peasant, his sad wife and child, his grain and his disastrous relations with the middlemen. Overhead O'Higgins has put a massive design of factories, cannon, two soldiers fighting to the death under the calm gaze of a fat overlord. Legend: "Against Imperialistic...
When 65 crop experts met in Chicago to form the Grain Analysts' Club, one of their number was a woman: comely, redhaired, blue-eyed Eileen Henington Miller. Selfconscious, Mrs. Miller offered to withdraw, but her male colleagues would not let her. One of the country's most brilliant crop forecasters, she has worked as a salesgirl in a department store and a stenographer in a Memphis cotton house where she began writing crop reports in 1919. As estimator for James E. Bennett & Co., Mrs. Miller does not rely solely on the reports of her 5,000 agents but travels personally...