Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days before, in the rococo legislative chamber of Iowa's capitol at Des Moines, all five Governors and representatives of four others had chewed stogies while tousle-headed Milo Reno, the rampaging Des Moines insurance man who fomented the Farmers Holiday movement, read off the list of his demands for agriculture. Hating Secretary Wallace and the AAA as a farmer hates a drought, Reno had asked for a farm code which would remove agriculture from Wallace's supervision, put it entirely under the NRA. Each farmer would be licensed to sell only his proportion of the domestic...
...Governors had no better plan. They lopped off Reno's last three proposals, got him to declare a truce in the farm strike. Then Governors Olson and Schmedeman entrained for Washington. Their colleagues later flew in the same direction...
With both Reno and Wallace, George Peek has much in common. He and Reno served on the Committee of 22 in 1926-28. Reno was an ardent supporter of the McNary-Haugen bill, which Peek instigated and lobbied through Congress from Vice President Dawes's anteroom only to have Calvin Coolidge veto it twice. Both Peek and Wallace used to be Republicans. Wallace shifted parties after his father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, President Harding's Secretary of Agriculture, died in 1924, his last days clouded by Secretary of Commerce Hoover's frustration of his plans for farm...
...stalled, failed to vote for the strike. Northeastern Colorado and Western Nebraska farmers went further, resolved at their meetings "to follow the leadership of President Roosevelt." Tempered editorials appeared, like that of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, which concluded: "The Government's proposition is part cash and part gamble; Reno's proposition is all gamble." Even such a hot-head as grizzled old Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma counseled farmer?s to be patient with the Administration's farm policy, pleading: "Give the Congress and President an opportunity. If they fail, then you may talk...
President Roosevelt's refusal on Saturday to establish Federal regulation of farm prices is another attempt of the administration to dodge the fate which is written for it. When expediency asserts itself in the use of the "handy" weapons recommended by Mr. Milo Reno, organizer of the National Farmers Holiday Association, the Federal government will find itself taking care of the farmers simply because the farmers have to be taken care of and because no one else can take care of them...