Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five years the farm-threat has hung dagger-like above the Republican party. But so impotent has been the Democratic party that the farmers have never let the dagger drop except to prick here and there a political life. For three and one-half years, President Coolidge has unequivocally opposed every farm bill which the farm bloc desired. And, while he has not signed any of the bills which the farm bloc did not want, he has never offered any plan of relief. He has confined himself to advising farmers to cooperate on their own initiative. Hitherto, the President...
...together. Just how and where is not known. Farm-bill men agreed to let the bank bill pass, bank-bill men agreed to vote for a vote on the farm-bill. And last week the farm bill, which a month ago had been as dead as a pig in a stockyard, commanded the immediate attention of the Senate?with an even chance of passing by a narrow margin. Thus with two neat strokes of strategy, the farmers were in sight of that land of milk and honey which the government had for five years told them was never-never land...
...Corn and swine are linked. Let farmers believe they will get a good price for corn, and promptly too much corn is planted. Down goes the price of corn. Meanwhile swine command good prices. So, next season, farmers turn their acres over to swine, feeding them on the almost worthless corn. Then, in the course of nature, they get too many swine and not enough corn. Down swine-price. Up corn-price. Next season farmers plant corn, and vicious is the circle. Furthermore, this corn-swine see-saw is apt to be exaggerated?an exaggeration of an exaggeration? in city...
...luck is proverbial. In 1925 he was kidnaped by soldiers of Chang Tso-lin, against whom he is now fighting, and carried in chains before Chang. That barbaric War Lord, who slaughters even his own followers if they displease him (TIME, July 19), yielded to a whim and let Chen go. "Eugene Chen" is, of course, merely the Anglicism which he adopted as a London lawyer to translate his Chinese name: Chen...
...with Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909) against James Jerome Hill (1838-1916) and John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) for control of Northern Pacific in 1901. That created the great "corner" in Northern Pacific, whose shares rose to $1,000 each. But Jacob Schiff and J. P. Morgan, foreseeing panic, let the "shorts" settle for $150 a share...