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...months of debate on the tariff, Senators spoke 4,219,000 words, which cost $131,900 to print in the Congressional Record. Democrats spoke for 221 hours, Republicans 158 hours, Insurgents 148 hours. Such were the statistics given the Senate last week by that master statistician, Chairman Reed Smoot of the Finance Committee, nominal pilot of the tariff bill...
...basic challenge to the soundness of the Farm Board's policies was vigorously sounded by Jesse E. Pope, able Washington statistician, in the March Atlantic Monthly. He warned that the Board's practice of "setting aside economic law" and fixing an arbitrary loan price for crops will lead directly to overproduction and the piling up of unmarketable surpluses. He cited past prices to prove that the Board's exhortation to "hold wheat" makes the farmer "far more likely to lose than to gain by the delay." Said...
...month club. Born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1899, he went to Miami Military Institute. Ohio State University (for one semester). He thought of becoming a prizefighter, an actor, a jazzbandsman. When he decided to be a writer, he realized that he had to get a job, became a statistician in Ohio's Department of Industrial Relations. He is married, lives in Los Angeles, is writing another novel, to be published next fall...
...Ford and Citroen have made marvelous machines at very reasonable prices,'' said a Ministry of Agriculture statistician, "but until they invent a traction engine that can be eaten when it is past its usefulness, our good peasants will stick to their horses...
...beaten in its effort to hold the Senate on the tariff job when all but one Democrat joined with the Old Guard to vote adjournment 49 to 33. With the end of the session fixed, the Senate dawdled over the tariff, finally turned aside to flay its critics. Statistician Roger Babson who had declared that Congress had fiddled like Nero while the stock-market broke, who had urged it to "stop bickering, adjourn and stay adjourned," was loudly denounced by Senator Borah. Cried the Idaho Senator: ". . . Utterly false and malicious statement! Who is this Babson? A man serving special interests...