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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loudly hailing his reciprocal trade treaties as the biggest break yet in the "economic log jam", Secretary Hull displayed in Minneapolis last week a naive and childlike conception of the havoc which Roosevelt policies have brought to our foreign trade. The combined effects of AAA crop reduction and the reciprocal agreements have closed foreign markets to many of our vital crops like cotton, and at the same time opened the gates wide for the importation from abroad of products much better produced at home. Clearly a policy which calls for slaughtering cattle in the north-west and then importing more...
...have never met General Hugh Johnson," wrote Mr. Pegler, "so I don't think I can be accused of log-rolling or back-scratching when I remark that 'Old Iron' pants,' as the boys used to call him around the NRA, is turning out a really good newspaper column these days. This is a bit of a surprise. . . . Whenever it was that Old Ironpants made his first attempt at this line of work, he seemed to be writing with his elbows, and apparently didn't have what it takes...
Thirty-three years later a settler has cleared a field in the forest, built a log house, and is grazing his cattle among the huge stumps of the white pines. Model No. 3 shows the same hillside in 1830, at the height of rural cultivation in New England: stone walls and white farm houses are everywhere; only a few straggling wood lots remain of the original forest...
...anniversary. There McGuffeyites settled down to enjoy a pageant, a square dance, a barbecue, speeches. Said Ohio's onetime (1929-31) Governor Myers Cooper: "McGuffey, if living today, would be a conservative!" Said Fred L. Black, speechmaker for absent Henry Ford who collects rare Readers, restored the crumbling log-cabin McGuffey birthplace near Claysville, Pa.: "Abraham Lincoln, William Holmes McGuffey and Thomas Edison are the three Americans Henry Ford reveres most." Said Lieutenant Governor Harold G. Mosier: "Ohio's most useful citizen...
...stopped, motored through Denver and out to a rented 1,200-acre ranch near Estes Park, in Roosevelt National Forest, where the Landon family was to spend the summer. In the big, low, rambling ranch-house that afternoon newshawks found the Republican nominee stretched out before a log fire in breeches and windbreaker, scratching away on a yellow pad at his acceptance speech. He would have to be back in Topeka on July 6 for a special session of Kansas' Legislature to deal with social security but meanwhile, he declared, he was going to have a good time fishing...