Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baton Rouge the Board was joined by Secretary Hyde, its ex-officio member, who came with a well-prepared address on "The Government's Policy Toward the Cooperative Movement." What the Farm Board was about to undertake he called "a great adventure on a new frontier...
...Florida fruit fly problem rested more heavily at the moment upon Secretary Hyde than it did upon the Board. Florida banks were failing, 24 in a row. A rigid Federal quarantine around the infested areas had imperiled a $60,000,000 fruit crop. Five thousand workers fought the fly. Into long trenches fresh fruit and truck were dumped, covered over with lime and earth as a means of exterminating the pest. Florida's so-called Little People (small growers) were hard hit, lacking as they did resources for such an emergency. Congress had already appropriated $4,800,000 to control...
Secretary Hyde. Prime issue in the campaign, farm relief has continued a prime activity of the new administration When President-Elect Hoover summoned Arthur Mastick Hyde to dine with him last winter in Florida (a social summons which greatly perturbed Mr. Hyde because he had no evening clothes with him) Mr. Hoover offered him the post of Secre- tary of Agriculture with the warning that it would be one of the hardest and busiest in the new Cabinet. Mr. Hyde reluctantly accepted with that understanding...
...five months since March 4, Secretary Hyde has shown a patient persistence in carrying out his job. He is hardworking earnest, honest. What he lacks in brilliance he makes up in frankness. If he has brought no remarkable innovations to the vast departmental organization under him, he has at least kept it on an efficient basis, has played no politics with its appointments...
Shortly after his appointment, in the lobby of a Washington hotel, Secretary Hyde met another Missouri lawyer, his political archenemy, onetime Senator James A. Reed. Reed's greeting was: "As one dirt farmer to another, Arthur, howdy! How's crops...