Word: milling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bears little resemblance to the Securities & Exchange Commission. It is merely the old Grain Futures Administration under a new name, members being the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce and the Attorney General. Its purview was broadened from grains, sorghums and flax to include rice, mill feeds, butter, eggs, potatoes and, more important, cotton. But entirely ignored by the Act were such commodities as coffee, sugar, cocoa, rubber, silk, tin, hides...
...Commodity Exchange Control bill regulating speculative trading in grain, cotton, rice, mill feeds, potatoes, butter and eggs...
...FAIR A HOUSE-Welbourn Kelley- Morrow ($2.50). Reports the trials of a Carolina gentleman-writer and mill-owner who, already harassed by the task of bringing up three children in the absence of a philandering wife, becomes involved in a local labor war. Crammed with action and sexual intrigue, saturated with heavy sentiment, this chaotic melodrama reveals a disturbing picture of life in the South...
...keeping faith with the Herbert score, Naughty Marietta did so well that the plan is for the forthcoming productions to be treated with like respect. The Red Mill may seem like an old, old story. But it will send audiences away singing Because You're You, In Old New York, The Isle of Our Dreams. In The Rose of Algeria there will be Ask Her While the Band Is Playing; in Sweethearts, Pretty as a Picture and the title waltz...
...father back, his ancestors were New Englanders, and New England has been his home since he was 10. Something there was in Poet Frost that did not like a college, in his youth. He left Dartmouth after a few months, Harvard after two years. He worked as a mill-hand, a shoemaker, a newshawk, tried farming, then teaching. At 37 he sold his farm, took his wife and four children to old England. There he published his first two books of poetry (A Boy's Will, North of Boston) made friends with such fellow-poets as Edward Thomas...