Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of these was hard times. Everybody who has read a political speech in the last nine months knows that more mortgages have been foreclosed in some parts of the country than there is land. Hard times hurt. But others came with hard times that will last long after these hard times are forgotten. One was a remarkable system of credit facilities for agricultural regions. Another was a great impulse towards diversified farming and more scientific methods. Another was a boost for cooperative marketing. Another was a farm bloc, then an insurgent bloc, and finally a third ticket in politics...
Commonwealth Land (Single Tax): William J. Wallace and J. C. Lincoln...
...great principles of the Democratic Party: honesty in Government [applause]; all public office is a public trust [applause]; equal rights to all men [applause]; and special privilege to none [applause]; fair and equal taxation; an open door of opportunity to the humblest citizen in all the land [applause]; loyalty at home, courage and honor and helpfulness abroad. [Applause...
Sales of mail order houses to farmers have experienced a considerable increase, and now reports are that agricultural sections are beginning to purchase binders, weeders and other farm implements. On the other hand, the wheat farmer's hard experience since 1920 has restrained and will restrain him from land speculation, and the purchasing of more luxuries. Western bankers doubt that even a continuance of the present prosperity of the wheat belt would insure a complete cleaning up of old debts, yet the retirement of a greater part of them this year is confidently predicted...
...Mail does not insure its ships. Frank Yager, flying from Cheyenne, Wyo., was bruised, and his plane was wrecked by a hurricane, which forced him to land at Chappell...