Word: prices
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Concretely, the election changed the farm picture only for flue-cured tobacco.* By voting No, tobaccomen rejected Secretary Wallace's offer to fix a rigid quota for each seller, levy a penalty of one half the market price for excess sales. By voting No, they also ruled out loans on whatever portion of their 1939 crop they may keep off the market. Unaffected by the Election was the "voluntary" half of the farm program-acreage restriction which growers of all three crops make in return for soil conservation payments and other cash benefits...
Though the Roosevelt-Wallace farm philosophies meshed, in 1932 Franklin Roosevelt did not get the ideas in question direct from Philosopher Wallace. Candidate Roosevelt took advice on the farm problem from others who shared the Wallace idea that farmers needed something more than price rigging. Among them was Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell of Columbia University, who in 1928 had tried to sell Al Smith a farm program which that salty sidewalk philosopher somehow couldn't swallow. Among them was red-faced, downright George Peek, who had grown interested in export subsidies while he and his partner Hugh Johnson were...
...untried Freshmen will meet Lynn Y.M.C.A, at 7:30 o'clock. Sprinters Stearns, Turner, Jay, Price, Brehmer and Ball; distance men Rowe, Downing, Emmett, Phinisy, and Schoonmaker; back strokers Johnson, Harris, and Mathis; breastrokers Girton, Wood and eberle, and divers Nichols, Skarples, and Thurlow are the men most likely to ses service. George Girton is the man to watch.EX-CAPTAIN CHARLIE HUTTER Alumnl Here Tonight...
Other information called for includes class, school, House applied for, rank list at time of application, and maximum price offered for room. This material will be used in a study of the present admissions system...
Most significant news of last week's Exposition, however, was not Mercer or the price paid for him, but the fact that he was the 23rd Aberdeen-Angus to win the single steer Grand Championship. Most upstart of all U. S. cattle breeds, purebred Angus were first imported from Scotland in 1878 by the Lake Forest, Ill. cattle firm of Anderson & Findlay. Only a few years before, a white-haired Scottish landowner named William McCombie had developed the short-necked, squat, hornless, soot-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five...