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Tumbling grain prices on the Chicago Board of Trade, however, were another matter. When September wheat slid 26? in two days, President Roosevelt grew alarmed lest his whole farm relief program be endangered. If agricultural purchasing power, up 80% since March, was to be maintained, farm prices must be protected from wild speculative slumps. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was summoned to the White House for a heart-to-heart. Board of Trade officials put their heads together in Chicago. Upshot was Government sanction of new rules which fixed minimum prices for grain (wheat, 90? per bu.; corn...
Third-Thou shalt not make Mammon thy god but neither shalt thou be unmindful of thy monetary system, lest it destroy thee...
...said they wanted to communicate with one of the Luers' neighbors. Mr. Luer, a banker, packer and Alton's first citizen, offered to telephone the neighbor. His slippers flew off as his captors seized and dragged him to a waiting automobile. Mr. Luer's sons, fearful lest their father's serious heart ailment be fatally aggravated by the shock of his capture, broadcast that Mr. Luer should be allowed to stand up if an attack came on, should be given no coffee, only mild cigars. "We cannot accept any ring, stickpin, or fingerprints," they warned...
...Lest the public get the notion that the Law is helpless in the face of thugdom, the Associated Press called to mind that in 18 notorious kidnapping cases in the past three years, 43 criminals have been jailed, three are dead, ten await trial. Prior to last week, the four most important kidnappees of the year were Broker Charles Boettcher II of Denver, little Peggy McMath of Cape Cod. Mary McElroy, daughter of Kansas City's city manager, and Brewer William Hamm of St. Paul. The abductors of all save Hamm are either doing time or awaiting trial...
...Valera in the (Southern) Irish Free State, prudent Mother Britain is lavish with gifts. Last winter Belfast went wild when Edward of Wales arrived to open a $5,000,000 present, the massive Northern Ireland Parliament Building, located inconveniently far out of town on Stormont Hill (TIME, Nov. 28). Lest Republicans in the Free State become too irate, His Royal Highness' speech was not broadcast...