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...worth more nan 12 bu. of corn, raise hogs: when worth less, sell corn. At farm prices hogs are now sellmg for about $11 per cwt., while 12 bu of corn are worth more than $15. Thus corn is favored. Originated during the War when Herbert Hoover, the Food Administrator, was trying to boost hog production, the formula is actually 11.6-to-1, but farmers dislike fractions
...year became State chairman. The Roosevelt-Taft split checked him momentarily, but he reorganized his machine Statewide, filled its treasury and from 1915 to the dawn of the New Deal reigned supreme. In 1920 Roraback moved on to the Republican National Committee. Even in 1932 he saved Connecticut for Hoover...
Maverick studied his constituents with more thoroughness than most politicians, even made a trip through Texas disguised as a hobo (see cut). Even before Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. was functioning. Maverick had started a relief experiment, the Diga colony, on a cooperative, barter basis. He was elected to Congress in 1934. has since made a name for himself as a progressive New Dealer. His greatest admiration is not Roosevelt but Senator Norris...
...does not know Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton well enough to surmise whether he has the requisite "iron in his soul'' to ride roughshod over the wishes of this or that segment of his followers, Mr. Michelson indicated his opinion by suggesting another candidate: Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. "He is a vigorous fellow, with perhaps the best mind among those who entertain the ultra-capitalistic theories. He has, in addition, that quality of autoappreciation which is variously translated as egoism or self-confidence. That is not a quality which...
...those imbeciles was smart enough to establish a house of prostitution in Baltimore. Whether any connection still exists between the traffic in housemaids and in prostitutes was something which Baltimoreans had to think about last week when J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation suddenly pounced upon ten local houses and arrested 50 women. He believed them all victims of white slavery, pawns of a far-flung ring. Said he: "Conditions are very...