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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mortier Shaw, Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury (1902-07), wrote the committee: While Secretary of the Treasury I remained ... an active producer of farm products of many kinds which made me interested in trade and commerce. . . . I acquired a half-interest in a copartnership and became the largest stockholder in a corporation . . . both interested in state and interstate commerce. . . . The fact that we had to sell what we produced did not change the nature of our business from that of producer to that of trade or commerce. ... I was familiar with the statute, the manifest purpose of which...
...troublesome problem of last year's wheat crop came forward and was met with a temporary solution. The 1928 crop was a bumper, close to 900 million bushels. On March 1, there still remained 355,563,000 bushels undisposed of, bulging in elevators and farm bins. It was the largest surplus since 1919, To make matters worse, the 1929 crop promises to surpass 1928's to run well above the 900 million bushel mark...
...last week the exhausted politicians arranged for parliament to elect as chancellor no one of their number, but a potent businessman, Dr. Ernst Streeruwitz, who in his youth was a smart cavalry officer of the Habsburg Imperial Guard. Such a choice will not long be stomached by the second largest Austrian party, the radical, devoutly Marxian "Social Democrats...
Class B and C contain various smaller preparatory and high schools which are sending by far the largest number of individual entries...
...making his attack Simmons was anything but original for almost every day for the past few weeks there has been some similar outbreak. On the other hand his statement does come officially from the head of the largest security market in the world and shows clearly that the Federal Reserve Board has hard sledding ahead...