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...House member with the longest consecutive service?31 years?is Iowa's Representative Gilbert N. Haugen, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture...
...Washington, last week, the House Committee on Agriculture, headed by Gilbert N. Haugen, considered the Norbeck-Andresen Bill making it "unlawful for any person to kill or capture any Bald Eagle within the continental United States, Alaska, Porto Rico or Hawaii," or to meddle with such an eagle's nest. If the bill is passed it will be legal to kill an eagle only when he is caught in the act of killing lambs, fawns or foxes on fox farms. Eagles killing chickens or making off with children will be immune...
...House in the past eleven years. Many of them were along the same lines the Federal Farm Board is now pursuing. With his knowledge of practical husbandry, of law, of politics, he has become Agriculture's most potent House orator. He plugged for the old McNary-Haugen bill, extolled the Equalization Fee, favored the Debenture Export Plan. Though disagreeing with his agricultural views, President Coolidge once recommended him to a Massachusetts audience as the House's "strongest speaker" on farm relief. He made his activities felt upon the House leadership. Speaker Longworth remarked: "Dick, if you ever need...
...handed the first pen to Chairman McNary of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and the second to Chairman Haugen of the House Committee on Agriculture who, with many another, were ranked behind him for the ceremony. "Now, all still for just a minute. . . . Look this way, Mr. President! Once more now!" cried the newscamera...
Iowa's Dickinson, erstwhile staunch Hooverite, derided the bill as "one of the worst, from an agricultural standpoint, ever presented to the House." His Iowa colleague, Representative Ramseyer, echoed his sentiments, denounced items in the bill as "indefensible." Chairman Haugen of the Agricultural Committee grew more grumpy than usual over the lumber and shingles duty and the failure of the measure to restrict vegetable oils...