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...this year and collecting Government rent on 150. Declares Secretary Wallace: "The taking out of acreage on a wide scale is one necessary line of attack. I don't contemplate such reduction of acreage as meaning that we permanently forsake our foreign markets. . . . In reducing the production of hogs, the best method may be for the Government to pay the hog producer rent on a specified amount of his corn land, provided he retires that acreage from corn production and also restricts the tonnage of hogs marketed." The farmer who already has his 1933 acreage planted and fertilized will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Senate v. Sun | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

...lively Publisher William Allen White sponsored a show of Curry's Kansas pictures in Wichita. Kansans found "drab" his best-known picture, Baptism in Kansas, which Manhattan's Whitney Museum will send to the Chicago Century of Progress. They found "unnecessary"' his wild Hogs Killing a Rattlesnake. They found uncivic his Tornado, showing Kansans scuttling into a cyclone cellar as a giant cornucopia of wind marches across the darkened prairie. Said Elsie J. Nuzman Allen, art-collecting wife of Kansas' onetime Governor Henry Justin Allen: ". . . Cyclones, gospel trains, the medicine man, the man hunt, are certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Kansan at the Circus | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

Domestic Allotment re-emerged by administrative decree rather than by legislative enactment in a provision for the Secretary to pay "benefits" to producers contracting to cut their output. Thus the farmer who whittles down his corn land and raises fewer hogs gets a cash bonus for his reduced hog production rather than rent on his idle corn field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Untrod Path | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...influence of an acrobat in the show. Margy Frake meets Pat Gilbert, a newspaper man from the big city, whose influence with the judges wins the prizes for Mrs. Frake's pickles and mincemeat. Thoroughly satisfied with the week's entertainment, the Frakes drive home to another year of hog-raising and gloating over their six blue ribbons...

Author: By E. G., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...Indiana's Governor McNutt signed a one-year moratorium whereby no property will be sold for back taxes. ¶ Iowa's Governor Herring appealed by proclamation for a halt on foreclosures until the General Assembly could act. ¶ Distressed agrarians, members of the Root Hog or Die Club, marched to St. Paul, Minn., demanded land tax reductions from Governor Olson. Their story: "We were promised years ago that the gross earnings tax would cut the levy; that the gas tax would cut the levy; that the auto tax would cut the levy. . . . These taxes have never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Back to the Farm | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

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