Word: warren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Huey Long proposed that rhubarb and spinach be declared basic commodities, but it remained for Representative Lindsay Carter Warren to propose a "Potato Tax Act of 1935." It remained for pious Representative Ralph Owen Brewster (former Governor) of Maine to enounce that "Potatoes are the Forgotten Crop." It remained for William Edgar Borah, most famed member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to take himself to AAA's hearings on potato restriction and portentously declare "Idaho raises a very fine potato. I am not quite familiar with the plan Mr. Warren has offered...
...Warren proposal is modeled on the cotton and tobacco restriction acts: a quota for every state and every grower, a penalty tax of ½? to ¾? per Ib. But the circumstances attending potato control are not simple. Potatoes do not have to go to a gin like cotton, nor are they bought by a few big buyers like tobacco. So collection of the tax and enforcement of quotas will be difficult. It will be more difficult because there are an estimated 3,000,000 potato growers who raise an average of less than an acre of potatoes each. Enforcement...
...think this is the-one essential thing for all undergraduates in Harvard College," said the professor, wiping himself on the mustache. "I found my own candidacy the most educational process I have ever undergone. My beat took me from Beacon Street mansion to Warren Avenue and return and vice versa, and after some time I learned to differentiate." Here Mr. Grupp straightened his tie and puffed out his chest complacently, expansively, and continued...
Around a table at San Quentin Prison one morning last week met Frank C. Sykes of San Francisco; Joseph H. Stephens, Sacramento banker; Warren Atherton, Stockton lawyer. They were members of California's Board of Prison Terms and Paroles and at the moment none was particularly happy about it. Clyde Stevens, a notorious bandit, had just accomplished his fourth bank robbery since they paroled him last October. The Press was hounding them again for laxity...
...Washington the Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club held its first meeting of the year, lunched, as usual, on a meal prepared by some of its members. For the main course, Mrs. William Warren Barbour, pretty wife of New Jersey's senior Senator, brought in chicken salad. Said she: "I made it myself. I know it's good." At 1 o'clock the hostesses tied name cards around their necks, began serving, soon found that they had underestimated their guests' appetites. First to go was Mrs. Barbour's chicken salad. While a score of lunchers held...