Word: husbandmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Milk Drinkers. Speaking for a "million farmers," Louis John Taber, Master of the National Grange, fairly flooded the committee with agricultural statistics to establish the benefits U. S. husbandmen have received from Prohibition. His best statistic: before Prohibition every U.S. citizen drank 42 4/10 gal. of milk per year; today each drinks 60 gal. He argued that grains which once went into liquor now make breakfast foods, that corn is higher in value now than before 1920, that the price of grapes has increased. Mr. Taber painted farm conditions in such cheerful colors that he seemed sorely embarrassed when...
...southern Illinois, Mrs. McCormick found husbandmen, after lean years, interested chiefly in farm relief and the tariff not in the League of Nations or the World Court. She spoke of a compromise tariff helpful to farmer and industrialist alike. What made Mrs. McCormick glum was the discovery of a widespread prejudice against a woman in the Senate. Added this was the covert opposition of many Illinois women to her because of what they considered her politically autocratic manner. Said she: "I hope nobody will vote for me simply "because I am a woman or vote against me solely because...
...McCormick felt glum at the prospects, she was not going to admit it to the husbandmen who listened to her speeches nor to the representatives of the press who plied her with questions. She told one and all that her campaigning so far had been "perfectly delightful." After a speech at Carmi, she remarked: "I have spoken to an average of 1,200 persons since I started at Shelbyville last Monday and the reception has been extraordinary." Many of the "1,200" had plowed through deep snow in below zero weather to hear her speak...
Every year U. S. husbandmen produce 150,000,000 tons of cornstalks. A small part they chop up and put in silos for winter feed, a small part they leave standing for forage, the rest they plow under for fertilizer. Fifteen years ago Dr. Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College began to look for cornstalk byproducts. Five years ago Iowa built him a $150.000 testing plant, the U. S. Bureau of Standards began to help with men and money. Dr. Sweeney produced and the state of Iowa patented a cornstalk wallboard, light, strong, cheap. Last week a million-dollar...
...beets) and Senator Broussard of Louisiana (cane) offered amendments to cut the Islands loose and thereby put their sugar production outside the U. S. tariff wall. Their amendments were defeated, but the agitation for getting rid of the Philippines to reduce agricultural competition by no means subsided. U. S. husbandmen producing vegetable oils warmed to the idea of Philippine independence. Their Congressmen lustily cheered the proposal last month in the House...