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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...N. G. C. Miss Lucy Hannon, general manager of the Ohio Equity Exchange Co., "only woman executive in coopera- tive marketing," named the new creation ?Farmers' National Grain Corp. Organized grain groups will subscribe to its stock, elect its directors and officials The corporation, thus privately owned, will buy grain from its members, sell it nationally to the best advantage. To it the Federal Farm Board will make operating advances from its $500,000,000 loan fund...
Chosen as F. N. G. C. organizer was William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, the man who led the "Equalization Fee March" around the Republican National Convention hall last year in Kansas City. Ever an enthusiast, Organizer Settle said last week in Chicago: "This is the greatest day in the history of agriculture since I can remember. . . . This is what we have been dreaming for years?united action? and it's the first time it has been realized. . . . President Hoover is sincerely trying to carry out the pledge he made...
...finally repulsed, but only after lower Manhattan, the bridges across the East River, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, great ammunition dumps at the Jersey City railheads had been laid in ruins. The invading fleet in this Army-Navy war game was commanded by Rear Admiral William Carey Cole, U. S. N. Aged 61, slender, handsome, rather English in manner, he led down from a Rhode Island base two battleships, three cruisers, three destroyer divisions, aircraft equipment- theoretically a full-fledged battle fleet. His mission was to bottle up U. S. fighting ships in New York Harbor. At Fort Hancock on Sandy...
That year at Pompton Plains, N. J., was born John Richard Voorhis, scion of an old Dutch family. At the age of one he was taken to Manhattan, to the village that was Greenwich Village. He sat on his great-grandfather's knee, heard eyewitness stories of the Revolution. He became a carpenter, built a mahogany stairway for Citizen A. T. Stewart's store (now Wanamakers...
...Army has a National Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. The Navy has a National Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Why not a National Aviation Academy under a Federal Department of Aeronautics...