Word: neale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what should be done for agriculture. The carefully selected group did not include such anti-New Dealers as Kansas' Dan Casement, who is a charter member of the Liberty League, or Iowa's Milo Reno, promoter of the "Farm Holiday." It did include Edward A. O'Neal, head of the Federal Farm Bureau Federation, a good ally of the New Deal, and representatives of the Farmers' Union (strong in the South) and of the National Grange which favors a revival of the ancient McNary-Haugen Plan...
...morning of the fourth day when the farm leaders arrived in Washington, the details of the plan and the legal devices to make it workable had still to be fleshed out, but the skeleton idea had taken form. The farm leaders marched in on Secretary Wallace. Edward O'Neal, Farm Bureau glad hander, spoofed them and slapped their backs to get them in good humor. After a brief session with Secretary Wallace, the farm leaders retired to draft a plan. Meanwhile, at a press conference President Roosevelt outlined the plan which the farm leaders were about to draft. Export...
Died. Joel Owsley Cheek, 83, retired coffee tycoon (Maxwell House), church worker, philanthropist; of pneumonia; in Jacksonville, Fla. After years of peddling coffee from house to house on horseback he organized Cheek-Neal Coffee Co., retired in 1928 when the company was sold to General Foods at a reputed price...
Tobaccoman Reynolds' brother William Neal, a great tobacco buyer, is the only Reynolds active in the company today. At 71 he is chairman of the executive committee. But Reynolds Tobacco has a long string of first class executives. Bespectacled Bowman Gray, a great tobacco salesman, is chairman of the board. Suave, meticulous S. Clay Williams left the presidency last spring to become vice chairman, was succeeded as president by Bowman Gray's brother James, who announced the earnings last week. Messrs. Gray and Williams produce no cigaret except Camel, but they can usually count on extra income from...
...Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, which had begged for troops as soon as Neal was taken from Brewton, found it hard to believe that soldiers were trained only to find their way around in city streets or jail corridors. Indignantly A. S. W. P. L. wired Attorney General Cummings to beg him to start some sort of Federal prosecution...