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...Stopgap. In Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, Mrs. Edna Reed got a divorce after testifying that her husband concluded a family argument by plugging her mouth with a raw herring...
...sometimes facetiously called "The American Corn Bureau"). President: roughhewn, painfully serious Charles B. Shuman, 49, an Illinois stock and grain farmer, and a teetotaling Methodist Sunday school teacher. The American Farm Bureau grew out of the agricultural recession after World War I, aligned itself with the relatively low stopgap subsidy policies of the Roosevelt Administration in the 1930s, saw the ruinous results of subsidized surpluses under the Truman Administration, has since-under the influence of its efficient, prosperous Midwestern members-generally supported Republican farm policy, e.g., the Farm Bureau held fast against this year's Democratic farm bill, opposes...
...colony's first try at self-government had blown up in the ouster of Jagan. In the political confusion left behind by the Commonwealth's first Communist Premier, no one ever got around to applying for Guiana's share of the colonial development funds. A stopgap grant of $14 million was made later that year, but it was no substitute for long-range financial assistance. Not until last week was British Guiana back on the track again...
Typically, Attlee was picked as party leader in 1935 only as a stopgap when...
...Stopgap Plan. All across the prairies, farmers dug into savings for cash to meet their taxes, payments on land and farm machinery. In Sanford, Man., the local credit union closed its books when the outstanding loans reached the legal limit. In Alberta farm towns, barter in livestock began to replace cash sales. In Saskatchewan, idle farmers swamped the National Employment Service with job applications. Last week the government offered a stopgap plan for the government to guarantee bank loans to farmers with stocks of unsalable grain. The scheme disappointed many farmers, who had hoped for straight cash advances on their...