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Scalloped Potatoes, Potatoes Julienne, Potatoes an Gratin, Lorette Potato, Potato Pancakes, Potatoes Allumettes, Potato Souffle-all these are delicacies when delivered from the hands of an expert chef. But there was no chef artist enough to make any of these as savory as the Potato Intrigue served last week in Washington...
...basic ingredients in the Intrigue were simple: 36,000,000 Ib. of potatoes in storage, worth a mere 35? a bu. compared to their $1.37 ancestors of 1930; 3,000,000 potato farmers, bitter when they think what AAA has done for cotton, for tobacco, even for such a "basic commodity" as peanuts; two railroads eager for potato traffic; a Secretary of State devoted to foreign trade; three great potato regions -Idaho, Maine and the South Atlantic Seaboard-and three great potato statesmen...
Year ago Huey Long proposed that rhubarb and spinach be declared basic commodities, but it remained for Representative Lindsay Carter Warren to propose a "Potato Tax Act of 1935." It remained for pious Representative Ralph Owen Brewster (former Governor) of Maine to enounce that "Potatoes are the Forgotten Crop." It remained for William Edgar Borah, most famed member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to take himself to AAA's hearings on potato restriction and portentously declare "Idaho raises a very fine potato. I am not quite familiar with the plan Mr. Warren has offered...
...worried la'st week. Mrs. Roosevelt had invited the Chautauqua Women's Club to lunch. As they began to arrive-Carrie Chapman Catt leaning on a cane, others in wheel chairs-Whitehousekeeper Nesbitt hastily ordered more dishes brought up, telephoned caterers for more paper napkins, ham, potato salad, buns, pickles, coffee, ice cream. In the East Room the great gold piano, suitably covered, was used as a serving table for angel cake. Mrs. Roosevelt carried a stool into the State Dining Room, mounted it and told the gathering: "I have been very much encouraged by the number...
...farms the last bushel of wheat had been threshed, the last shock of corn stacked, the last apple picked, the last potato dug last week when the Department of Agriculture issued its final estimates of the 1934 harvest. Production of field crops was 32% below the average for the past ten years but prices were up 42% from last year, 140% from 1932. Farm value of field crops was $4,800,000,000 as against $4,100,000,000 last year...