Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whenever during recent months the price of wheat has slumped lower, the Federal Farm Board has charged that grain speculators were manipulating the market to discredit the Board's efforts to help the farmer. When fortnight ago Vice President Curtis and Senator Watson begged the Board to hold its 200.000,000 bu. off the market long enough for prices to rise, Board officials obliquely declared that such requests were inspired by avaricious wheat traders plotting to rob the farmer. Few persons appeared to heed these vague accusations. But last week the Farm Board took them to the White House...
...Santos, Brazil fortnight ago 530,000 sacks of coffee were burned up to reduce the Brazilian surplus, relieve the market, up prices. At about the same time in Washington, James Eli Watson of Indiana. Republican floorleader of the Senate, was beseeching the Federal Farm Board to reduce the U. S. wheat surplus, relieve the market, up prices by drastic action upon the Board's 200,000,000 bu. of wheat. Senator Watson as spokesman for the Senators from wheat-growing States did not seriously propose that the Board destroy its vast holdings by fire, much as such a spectacle...
...Board would give no specific answer. It belligerently maintained a broad right to sell as much as the market would absorb without a major price decline, despite the fact that it would lose 30^ at current prices on each & every bushel thus sold. To the pleadings of Senator Watson that all wheat be withheld from sale, greying, strong-jawed James Clifton Stone, the Board's harassed chairman, turned a deaf ear. The Board, he said, would follow its selling policy regardless of political clamor...
...Senator Watson has been in politics too long to be easily discouraged. He marched straight to the White House, saw President Hoover. The President, said the Senator, should declare a wheat moratorium to match his debt moratorium. The Farm Board's policy, he insisted, was making all sorts of political trouble for the President. He advised the President to influence a change. At first the President was reluctant to interfere. But when Senator Watson finished explaining how wheat growers held the Farm Board-and the Republican Party-responsible for low prices (35^ per bu. in Kansas), the President dispatched...
...oppo nent's weaknesses. As was Johnston's, his best shot is his forehand though until this year it was so undependable that he made j a habit of borrowing his friends' rackets, taking lessons, practicing against a wall when the trick deserted him. Two of his uncles are Watson Washburn, 19 21 Davis Cup player, and Julian S. Myrick, onetime (1920-22) president...