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Since the Middle Ages sturdy husbandmen have grumbled at the tithes which thousands of them still have to pay to the Church of England. Last week 200,000 farmers, mostly in the southern counties, startled England by announcing, "We have banded together to protect ourselves from the effects of this 16th Century graft...
...Holiday Association to execute the strike. He would organize and head it-at $5 per day, to be paid by a 50? levy on all members. A radical exhibitionist who claims to be "as poor as the rest of you farmers," Mr. Reno began passing out pledge cards wherein husbandmen agreed to withhold their goods until prices reach a level above the cost of production. First focus of the Holiday Association's activity was Sioux City where a strike began fortnight ago. More than 2,000 farmers picketed the seven highways into town. Produce trucks were turned back...
Bolivia Bubble. The possibilities of large-scale farming outside the U.S. were responsible for the biggest single failure in Governor Murray's career. Defeated in politics, he went exploring through South America, where he hit upon the idea of establishing a colony of U. S. husbandmen in Bolivia. From that Government he secured a concession to 75,000 acres in El Ghan Chaco. Back in Oklahoma, he sold his Tishomingo farm, paid his debts, mustered together about 40 colonists including his own entire family and in 1924 led the way to Bolivia. The land was poor. The natives were...
...prices by drastic action upon the Board's 200,000,000 bu. of wheat. Senator Watson as spokesman for the Senators from wheat-growing States did not seriously propose that the Board destroy its vast holdings by fire, much as such a spectacle might delight U. S. husbandmen, but he did strongly urge the Board to cease selling wheat for at least a twelvemonth...
...advocating the Equalization Fee form of Farm Relief before a House Committee when a Congressman challenged his right to speak for farmers. Mr. Thompson hustled back to Illinois, returned to Washington and the committee 48 hours later with a petition in which some 67,000 husbandmen authorized him to represent their views. As a representative of organized agriculture he was appointed to the Farm Board. His prime tenet: Relieve farmers and Depression will fade away...