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...follows this metaphysical reasoning to the bitter end, the Farm Bloc will try to smash the new ceiling to bits. Best augury for its enforcement is the fact that the Farm Bloc is to some degree split: livestock producers perhaps can be played off against grainmen. On the rule of divide and conquer, the Administration...
...time the Websters reached Scotland Caroline was quite annoyed with Mr. W. A good farmer, Statesman Webster kept deserting his wife to look at British livestock. Once he left Caroline to "see some Ayrshire cows." While Mrs. W. was chiefly interested in looking at Durham Cathedral, Mr. W. concentrated on buying "one ram and three ewes." At Oxford he went to see "implements of farming." Mrs. W. looked over the colleges, avoiding Titian's paintings of The Loves of the Gods ("The subject not suited to ladies...
Edward Vivian Robertson, 61, Wyoming, liberal, Welsh-born owner of Cody's finest general store and livestock ranch. Suave, handsome E. V. Robertson, who once refused a $7,500 AAA soil-conservation check, is no machine politician; he has his own ideas about progressive government. He will also have one of the Senate's oddest hobbies: making ranch-building models out of matchsticks...
Next day Mr. McNutt "froze" manpower in the dairy, livestock and poultry industries, and sent a directive to Selective Service to send a directive to local draft boards to defer all such farm workers. (Week before the Tolan committee noted the testimony of General Hershey: "Of course, the local boards need not pay any attention to 99% of the things which we send out. It is a good thing they do not have...
...Wickard backtracked last week. Conditions had changed in eight months, said he: day by day the hard facts of war were coming home to the U.S. Now Wickard urged the repeal of the 110% farm ceiling price-100% is enough. Moreover, he offered to approve an OPA ceiling on livestock prices provided farmers are protected against low prices. The hoped-for result would be to ease the squeeze between Henderson's ceiling on retail meats and Wickard's refusal to fix prices on the animals that packers...