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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baton Rouge. With farm relief at least started in the grain belt, the Board traveled south to Baton Rouge, there to attend a meeting of the American Institute of Cooperation, composed of executives in all lines of farm selling agencies. Each member of the Board had been previously invited to attend in his private capacity as an executive of a cooperative; now all went officially as Board members to discuss technical problems, to make helpful contacts, to gather opinions...
...Baton Rouge the Board was joined by Secretary Hyde, its ex-officio member, who came with a well-prepared address on "The Government's Policy Toward the Cooperative Movement." What the Farm Board was about to undertake he called "a great adventure on a new frontier...
...will be happy indeed because "just across the channel, Charley" (TIME, May 27) will be his good friend, Ambassador Dawes. As Senator Edge was not immediately to take up his hard-won diplomatic assignment, the White House delayed official announcement of his appointment. The surface explanation: As a Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Edge was needed through the special session to "help" President Hoover on tariff revision.* The real political reason: If Mr. Edge resigned from the Senate before Oct. 5. New Jersey voters under the law would pick his successor at a general election...
Sorely tried last week was many a Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee now secretly drafting the Tariff Bill. Each had been placed under strictest party orders to keep his mouth shut, to babble none of the Committee's confidential doings to newsmen clustered inquisitively at the closed door. Silence was such an ordeal that some Senators ducked and dodged away by back passages, while others took the press blockade...
...Voorhis gave him a cigar marked "John R. Voorhis." To other guests went other presents: To the men, pencils, to the women, fans, all marked in gilt: "1829? JOHN R. VOORHIS?1929." There was a birthday cake, two poems, 100 roses from Pompton Plains. Commissioner Voorhis was elected a member of the young Democrats club. For the first time in his life he cried in public. Police Commissioner Whalen joshed him because the police department had no Voorhis fingerprints, added: "I thought that in 100 years, any man would stub his toe at least once...