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...Promised through floor leaders consideration of farm relief legislation, and consideration began. Representative Tincher introduced Administration bill providing for a Federal Farm Advisory Council and Farmer Marketing Commission. It carried a $100,000,000 fund for loans and $500,000 for expenses...
...injury, since it happened while he was on an automobile excursion, out of touch with his agents. U. S. Secretary Jardine was alarmed because the simultaneous action of the Messrs. Livermore and Howell suggested possible collusion to manipulate grain prices-a practice painstakingly prohibited by the Capper-Tincher Grain Futures...
...There was a dinner to which tried members of the Party were bidden- Senators Lodge, Borah, Watson, Curtis, Warren, Brandegee and Representatives Tincher of Kansas and Sinott of Oregon. A guessing game was played- by the guests-the question being "Whom will the Democrats nominate?" Two of the guests guessed the same man, Senator Ralston...
...bill. Representatives Dickstein, Jacobstein, La Guardia, Sabath and Rosenbloom - whose names are indicative of their disinterestedness - made desperate last-minute efforts to amend the measure to modify the quota basis so as to favor the Italian, Jewish and eastern European stocks. The debate ended with winged words from Representative Tincher of Kansas: "The issue" is fairly well drawn. On the one side- is beer, Bolshevism, unassimiating settlements, and many flags. On the other side, is constitutional government, one flag, the Stars and Stripes and American institutions...
...Capper-Tincher bill, which in theory placed American grain exchanges under the supervision of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has never produced any practical change of importance in the rules and practices of the Chicago Board of Trade. Recently the Federal Trade Commission has, in compliance with a Senate resolution, conducted an investigation of that market, and in its report makes several recommendations regarding desirable changes in the present mode of operation...