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...when Candidate Franklin Roosevelt was scheduled to make his ''farm speech" in Topeka, Kans., one of Des Moines, Iowa's leading citizens had dinner with a group of friends. At the dinner Henry Wallace, the shockheaded editor of Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead, raised his fingers, ticked off one by one the things he would say if he were making a farm speech. When guests and host repaired to hear the candidate. Franklin Roosevelt raised his hand, ticked off practically the same things. Henry Wallace broke out in one of his engaging smiles. From that...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt had a date to address a high-school graduating class in northern West Virginia-at Arthurdale, the subsistence homestead community closest to her heart. But in her husband's chest welled up something which he wanted to get off to all the People. He announced that he would fill Mrs. Roosevelt's engagement, using a national radio hookup. Before he left Washington last week, newshawks knew what was on his chest: the 1938 Tax Bill, still lying unsigned, un-vetoed at the White House...
Sponsor of the A. Y. A., which would appropriate $500,000,000 to provide part-time jobs, finance vocational training, is Minnesota's amiable Ernest Lundeen, father of two children, who last week compared it to the Homestead Act of 1862. Said Mr. Lundeen...
...Under the Homestead Act of 1862, any boy could go to the West and acquire a home and a chance to earn a living for the mere asking. Today these opportunities are gone. We can no longer expand to the West. Hopes and aspirations of young America are piling up behind the dam of economic circumstances. No such economic barrier can long survive the pressure which increases with each rising hour. Let us open the floodgates to young America, by legislating this Homestead Act of 1938. The American Youth Act is the new frontier...
...children he would have something to worry about. But not Man o' War. Munching hay at his homestead at Faraway Farms, near Lexington, Ky., Man o' War, not quite 21,* had last week nothing to worry about-not even the preparations for his big birthday party March 29th-and he had something new (if he had known it) to be proud...