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...compared with seven and eleven years ago, when the College favored Hoover and Landon, a further proof of the liberal trend is revealed in the support of Roosevelt in 1944 if the war is still in progress. This same question of keeping the Democrats in power in 1944 was supported by an overwhelming majority in a poll taken in the Lowell House Junior Common Room last week. The decision against less government regulation shows another change in opinion in the last few years...
...Moines, surrounded by Iowa's fabulous black loam, is in the heart of U.S. farm country. There last week Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover, talking to the nation and twelve members of the Midwest Governors' Conference, got quickly to the heart of the U.S. farm problem...
Said Herbert Hoover: "Of the different sectors of the home front, food is the greatest. It stands next to the military effort in importance. . . . Agriculture must rank with munitions...
...Acres. Yet, said Herbert Hoover, "there is no cause for alarm provided we set about remedy, and quickly." He repeated his recommendations for better food administration, simpler price controls (TIME, Feb. 1). And he concluded with one real justification for optimism...
Four days later came statistical documentation of Herbert Hoover's tribute to the farmer. In Washington the Agriculture Department issued its annual spring planting forecast, based on reports from farmers all over the country. The figures were astonishing to the point of a 20th-century miracle: despite their troubles, despite bureaucrats, hell & high water, farmers will plant 279,000,000 acres-10,000,000 more than last year. They will plant 20% more peas and beans (good meat substitutes), 10% more soybeans, 21% more peanuts and flaxseed for oils, 14% more potatoes, 6% more corn to fatten their cattle...