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...summers hot and long. In this land Germans, Scandinavians, Czechs, and Bohemians settled. Thrifty, industrious races they have made the whole state one enormous farm of stretching fields of grain and pastures. The people, nearly 90% of them of foreign stock, are sturdy, simple. Not only grain and livestock were bred in this fruitful farmland, but stalwart men as well. From Nebraska came William Jennings Bryan, the silver-tongued, foremost popular orator of his day; General John J. Pershing, first in command of the U. S. soldiery in the World War; Charles Bryan, Nebraska's idealist Governor (1923.-25); Gilbert...
Term bills, in the days of the first college building, were paid in livestock, grain, groceries, and various fluids, because of the scarcity of money...
...Robinson Crusoe"* by Daniel Defoe. Last week Dictator Premier Carlos Ibanez of Chile announced that the Chilean "Reds" recently arrested by his agents (TIME, March 7) would be exiled on Mas-a-fuera Island, 100 miles west of "Robinson Crusoe's Island," supplied with tools and implements, with livestock and building material, guarded by Chilean soldiers and given an opportunity to test out their "Red" theories in a colony built by themselves...
...suffered reverses, notably the cotton states, whose principal crop, produced in exceptional abundance, is selling at very low prices. Parts of the spring-wheat states have harvested a poor crop. Generally speaking, however, the position of agriculture is better now than it has been in any year since 1920. Livestock raisers, dairymen and winter-wheat growers have earned good returns, and underlying conditions in the Corn Belt have improved...
...name is Snook, and yet we are a good family with three of us in the new Who's Who. Homer Clyde Snook is a great electro-physicist. John S. Snook was a member of the 57th and 58th Congresses. And John Wilson Snook owns a 506 acre livestock ranch at Baker, Idaho, and is Prison Warden at Salmon, Idaho. People here in the East don't seem to know about the Snook family, and I hope you will print this so they will. MONTAGUE MORTON SNOOK New York...