Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of a conference between the two houses. The sheer physical bulk of the farm bill with amendments was more than matched by the dictatorial powers it gave the President over Agriculture and Finance. He could fix and collect a processing tax on wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, dairy products, tobacco, rice, sugar beets and cane with which to pay producers of these commodities...
...endowment money. Theodore Roosevelt and Publisher Adolph Ochs became interested, but endowments never kept pace with the Berry Schools' growth. Miss Berry needs $150,000 in gifts every year. Only entrance requirement for the Berry Schools is that one be too poor to go elsewhere. Bartering learning for tobacco, oxen, eggs was known to Miss Berry long before U. S. colleges took it up during the past two years. Wearing overalls and gingham dresses, all Berry students must work two days a week. Simple, combining hand with mind, are the Berry courses-liberal arts, science, commerce, mechanics, agriculture. There...
...President was off cruising, M. Herriot arrived in Washington, took up quarters at the Mayflower Hotel, awaited his turn at the White House. When asked about international currency stabilization, he packed his pipe while replying: "I'm interested in anything that will keep the price of my tobacco stable-and I have probably said too much at that...
...Paul De Bruyn was eighth in 1931, winner a year ago. In eighth place last year was a short, prudent Pawtucket, R. I. mill worker named Leslie Samuel Pawson who trains for marathons not by drinking beer like many of his confreres but by total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, long runs around Pawtucket when he gets through work. Last week Leslie Pawson started off smoothly with a group bunched in third place. For 18 mi. he scampered lightly along, not plodding like most marathoners but running on his toes. Of the other runners in the race, 219 straggled behind...
...creating "sentiment that might not allow a fair trial." Interviewed by a northern newshawk about the Alabama jurors. Leibowitz was quoted as saying, "If you ever saw those creatures; those bigots, whose mouths are slits in their faces, whose eyes pop out at you like frogs, whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy, you would not ask how they could do it." At a mass meeting last week, Harlem Negroes hailed Leibowitz as "a new Moses...