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...front cover**) In Chicago last week the Federal Farm Board bore its first fruit?a 20 million dollar grain marketing corporation. Still minus a wheat member and without Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde who was kept away by many another official duty, the Board journeyed westward from Washington to meet 52 officials of farmers' grain elevators, cooperatives, pools and marketing agencies, representative of 650,000 grain-growers.' At the Sherman Hotel behind closed doors a harmony meeting was held from which Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa was politely ushered out despite his political plea of representing "all farmers...
Secretary Hyde. Prime issue in the campaign, farm relief has continued a prime activity of the new administration When President-Elect Hoover summoned Arthur Mastick Hyde to dine with him last winter in Florida (a social summons which greatly perturbed Mr. Hyde because he had no evening clothes with him) Mr. Hoover offered him the post of Secre- tary of Agriculture with the warning that it would be one of the hardest and busiest in the new Cabinet. Mr. Hyde reluctantly accepted with that understanding...