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...jumped at a new publishing venture, started a monthly journal called Successful Farming. The magazine faltered at first, then boomed. Now it has a circulation of some 850,000. Farmers read it avidly, become wise, grow bigger and better crops. In 1914 and 1916, Editor Meredith tried politics with scant success. He ran for Senator and Governor, was defeated. His farmer friends were not downcast- after all, Iowa was a staunch Republican state and Mr. Meredith, however able, was a Democrat. As Secretary of Agriculture (1920-21), Mr. Meredith was in his element. He awakened scientists to problems agrarian...
...essential for medicinal purposes, is running inconveniently low. In November, 1921, there were 50,000,000 gallons in storage. But the yearly drinking, under doctors' prescriptions, and the disappearance of 18,000,000 or 19,000,000 gallons by technical shrinkage of evaporation and absorption have left a scant 15,000,000 gallons. This constitutes an "emergency," General Lincoln C. Andrews, Prohibition Director, said last week...
...scant ten days of actual work on the ice remain before the opening tilt on December 10, when Captain Ellison is stick men will square off against M. I. T. at the Arena. Coach Bigelow's problem will be to select as soon as possible from the wealth of experienced material on hand the strongest possible team to carry the colors of the University in the strenuous engagements that follow. With tentative dates listed with several powerful Canadian teams during Christmas week, a smooth, strong sextet must be chosen almost at once...
...General, and Col. Carmi A. Thompson, personal representative of President Coolidge (TIME, April 12), now on his way to Washington with a bulbous report. It is known that Governor General Wood will leave Manila late in January to go to discuss the Philippines with President Coolidge, but there is scant reason to believe that he intends to resign. His health, which has been poor since an operation for hernia in September, may be a determining factor...
...entirely in the light of legality and morality, with scarcely a mention of economics, and as it is some of our ablest economists who are arguing for debt cancellation on purely economic grounds, Mr. Bausman's intricately woven garb of German innocence British duplicity, and American simplicity is a scant, almost indecent, covering for his main contentions...