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...certificates, negotiable, would have fixed values as follows: wheat 42? per bu.; cotton 5? per lb.; tobacco 4? per lb.; hogs 2? per lb. After harvest the farmer would sell his full crop in the open market. Thereupon the Treasury would step in and collect as an excise tax 42? from millers on every bushel of wheat they bought for flour, 5? from spinners on every pound of cotton, 4? from cigaret & cigar manufacturers on every pound of tobacco, 2? from meat packers on every pound of hog. Thus special treasury funds would be created out of which the Secretary...
Thus Chancellor von Papen hog-tied the Prussian Free State to the German Federal Government but left bald Dr. Braun loose as Premier of Prussia...
...Associated Press discovered that Mississippi has places named Hot Coffee, Whynot and O. K.; Florida has Sonny Boy, Two Egg, Coon and Sisters Welcome; North Carolina has Hog Quarter, Maiden and Red Bug; Virginia has Ego, All, Swallow Well and Topnot; Arkansas has Smackover, Self Sodom, Greasy Corners and Hog Scald; Louisiana has Blank, Wham and Uncle Sam; Georgia has Ty Ty, Crisp, Bacon and New York...
...composite view of the campaign, drawn for TIME by Artist Nat Karson (see "The Voter's Dream"), represents 33 faces, six issues. The issues: Farm Strike, Hog Prices, Maine election, the B. E. F., the Gold Dollar, the Whispering Campaign. The faces...
...Hudson River Valley "farmer." His reference was to the agricultural operations carried on at "Krum Elbow," his mothers 1,000-acre estate at Hyde Park, N. Y. Roiled by such talk, Henry Field, Iowa's Republican Senatorial nominee, last month blurted out: "At Krum Elbow there is no hog lot but there are a polo ground and tennis court. What appears to be a silo is an elevated water tower for care of the lawn and the sunken garden. What looks like a henhouse is really a glass-enclosed hot-house...