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...landslide years of 1928 and 1932, just over 60% of qualified voters went to the polls. But lean, Lincolnesque Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace is seldom satisfied with any result short of the ideal. He did not hide his disappointment over the result of AAA's corn-hog vote, first substantial figures on which were released in Washington last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Half Hog | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...mere hog in body and mind, Gustavus and Joseph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pound Still Soaring | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...Likes Hog Money Despite Odor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMONG THE WOLVES | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...reproach among hogs to be a bit of a swine and the influence of the Corn-Hog money dispensation reflects itself very clearly in retail trade which points upward for the next several weeks. Despite a sharp decline in grain prices caused by a drop in sterling and the favorable crop reports in Canada and the Argentine, farm stocks have been very buoyant, which indicates that fodder for the farmer from the Government silo is as efficacious as high prices for his products...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMONG THE WOLVES | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...federal money at the rate of half a billion dollars a month. Whether or not the government may hold up its hands in horror at the accusation of using national funds for political purposes, the result of the vast expenditures remains the same. Public projects for the unemployed, corn-hog payments for the dissatisfied farmers, ever increasing relief funds are more formidable votegetters than reams of political speeches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLOWING GOLD | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

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