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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years (1896-1900) in the State House of Representatives. Becoming a cotton planter (today he is the South's biggest planter in Congress) he took a prime part in the organization of the Southern Cotton Association at New Orleans in January 1905. This primitive cooperative he helped promote throughout the South as general field agent. In 1908 he was nominated ("receiving at that time the largest vote ever given for this office in his State") and later elected to the U. S. Senate...
...Farm experiment stations throughout the land...
...scarce grew water throughout the English midlands that numerous water-hogging textile mills were forced to shut down for one week provisionally. In London, the Ministry of Health, after advising municipalities to ration their water with "rigid economy," concluded cryptically: "Statistics appear to show that the rainfall in England during the next few years may continue below average...
Unmoved, parsimonious President Irigoyen continued not to spend. He announced that he would authorize no payments until all the contracts let by the previous administration were reexamined. In vain irate creditor firms throughout the world protested that their contracts had been authorized by the Argentine Congress and are binding, even mandatory upon the Treasury. The essential fact is simply that President Hipolito Irigoyen is the absolute and irresponsible "political boss" of Argentina. When he chooses to pay there will be no difficulty, for receipts and surplus in the Argentine Treasury are adequate, even above normal. Friends of Argentina hoped that...
Preachers throughout the U. S. compose the commission, under an executive committee of eleven. Chairman is William C. Redfield of Brooklyn, N. Y., Secretary of Commerce in the Wilson Cabinet, president of the National Institute of Social Sciences, author (Dependent America, We and the World). Other committeemen include: Rev. Charles Stedman MacFar-land of Mountain Lakes, N. J., General Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches and National Field Scout Commander of the Boy Scouts of America; Margaret Tyson Applegarth of Rochester. N. Y., children's author (The School of Mother's Knee); Stanley High, brisk young editor...