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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simply a coincidence that at every mill in the two Carolinas where trouble has occurred that the semblance of strikes or disorders have occurred at mills still dominated by "home" interests. L. H. RUFFIN...
Chosen as F. N. G. C. organizer was William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, the man who led the "Equalization Fee March" around the Republican National Convention hall last year in Kansas City. Ever an enthusiast, Organizer Settle said last week in Chicago: "This is the greatest day in the history of agriculture since I can remember. . . . This is what we have been dreaming for years?united action? and it's the first time it has been realized. . . . President Hoover is sincerely trying to carry out the pledge he made...
...Behind her, beaten, labored the packet Natchez, burning up "doors, furniture, hundreds of hams and slabs of side meat." The Robert E. Lee's record stood until last week when three exhausted, red-eyed men tottered ashore at St. Louis from the 150 h. p. speed launch Bogie. They had not slept for four days. Their running time was 87 hr. 31 min. The Bogie's owner, a Dr. Louis Leroy, was 5 cents richer-a bet won from Yachtsman George M. Cox of New Orleans, whose Martha Jane, racing the Bogie, faltered at Natchez...
...TIME, July 15). Said the Senator: "What the American sugar producers want is the House rate [3¢ per lb.] but I am putting forward the sliding scale so that if there should be a runaway in the sugar market, it cannot be laid to the tariff." Farm Lobbyist Chester H. Gray called the Smoot plan a "risky experiment," protested its use on agricultural products, advised it be first "tried out on some profitable industrial commodity...
Governor John H. Trumbull, on his way to Canada, hastened back to Hartford by airplane to "straighten out this mess." As he stepped out of the plane, he asked: "What's the matter? As soon as I get out of the state, you boys start raising hell." Promptly he summoned a special session of the legislature to repass en masse all the legislation voided by the court...