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...McNary-Haugen bill, permitted the farmer to grow all he could, setting up a Federal agency to dump surpluses abroad. That was his debut as an agrarian agitator. In 1926 Mr.. Peek became chairman of the Committee of 22 of the North Central States Agricultural Conference. As a mem ber of this body he buttonholed Congressmen for two years, trying to pound home his ideas on farm relief. Early on the Roosevelt bandwagon, he now works just as hard to put into effect the Roosevelt domestic allotment as he did for his own equalization fee. and doubtless gets...
...time. Often did the little dice click on the floors in some remote, but now dusty corner of the room. Foamy beer trickled down the throats and the room rang with joyous song. This was "the busiest room within the walls of the busiest building in the East" as "Mem" was often termed in days gone by. Today, three men enter the portal. One is elderly, white, and bent with age, one is a man in his fifties, the third is an undergraduate with crew haircut. The first recalls the momentous occasion when the walls were dedicated. Another had many...
...another part of the room. The Naval Science Department has asked for the use of Memorial Hall as its base, but they have been granted only a section in one of the remote parts of the basement. Once again the martial beat is in the heart of old "Mem...
Miss Cornelia M. van Asch van Wyck, world president of the Y. W. C. A., arrived in New York last week. Mem ber of a famed Dutch family (her father was a Deputy in the States-General, two of her brothers are in the diplomatic service), she helped organize the Dutch na tional Y. W. C. A. in 1920, headed it from 1926 until 1930 when she became the first Continental president of the World's Council...
...track team which toured South Africa. Voters for the Sullivan Medal like to cite an international athlete when one is available. Of Berlinger's South African exploits, they said: "He did more to spread the gospel of goodwill between America and South Africa than any mem ber of the party, according to Manager Gish."* Other voters called him ''a sterling character . . . innately modest . . . a successful influence for good among the growing generation ... a crack rifle shot...