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...Staley's Beans...
...soybean man, as appears in the issue of Oct. 12. I feel that your article and general information on the soybean industry is very accurate and extremely well written and I think that if you make the proper investigation you will find that Mr. A. E. Staley, chairman of the board of the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co. of Decatur, Ill. should be considered by all odds the No. 1 soybean...
...think the fact that Illinois accounted for 21,834,000 bu. of the total U. S. production of 39,637,000 bu. in 1935 can be largely attributed to Mr. Staley's pioneer work in educating the farmers of his own State in the production of soybeans and it is also interesting to note that Mr. Staley built the first soybean plant in the U. S. in 1922, which provided a commercial market for the farmers of Illinois. Mr. Staley realized the possibilities in the soybean industry as far back as 1916 and even sent men to China...
Never happier than when he is displaying the flowery diction expected of an honorary degree-holder from Boston's Staley College of the Spoken Word, rich-voiced Governor Curley then arose and intoned: "I bring the greetings of the State of Massachusetts. . . . That master of prose and poetry who has sounded every depth and shoal of human feeling, William Shakespeare, unquestionably anticipated this institution when he penned the line which reads 'How far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world.' " After reviewing the history of Harvard, Democrat Curley...
...honorary degree awarded to Massachusetts' Governor was Doctor of Oratory. It was awarded just after Governor Curley had signed a bill authorizing Staley College to grant Masters' degrees in Oratory...