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...Farmers. "To the farmers of the United States also we promise not patronage but such laws and such administration of the laws as will enable them to prosper in their own right. . . . They feel today, more severely perhaps than any others, the depressing effect of discriminatory taxation. Buying in a protected market and selling in a market open to the world, they have been forced to contribute to the profits of those in other industries with no compensating benefit to themselves. . . . We propose to see to it that the discriminations which the tariff makes against the farmer shall be removed...
...imagination of his audience by referring to "COTTON: SUDANESE WHITE GOLD." He said that the Government was making great efforts to increase the cotton production of the Commonwealth, not only in the Sudan but in other British-African possessions and in India. He said that a Nation could prosper by the "smell of the market" and to make the odor appetizing he announced that he was setting up an inquiry "into conditions of industry, particularly with reference to the industries working for the export trade...
...Lafayette (French)?Grantland Rice, famed sports writer; Prosper Champion, "sparkplug king" of Flint, Mich...
Meanwhile McAdoo's fortunes did not prosper well. By a 5 to 3 vote ex-Governor James M. Cox, Democratic nominee in 1920, secured the Ohio delegation from McAdoo...
...Central continued to prosper under the Commodore's son, William H. Vanderbilt. In 1879, however, "W. H." tired of administration, competition with Jay Gould and legislative attack; he also had serious doubts as to the advisability of one man's having as much money and power as he had. Accordingly, he sold control of the system to a banking syndicate headed by the then rising and brilliant young banker, J. P. Morgan. Practically ever since, the road has been financed by the Morgan group...