Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Alexander Legge was Federal Farm Board chairman, he used to stage what he called "Legge shows" throughout the wheat-growing midWest. If at these performances any farmers expected to see chorus girls, hear jazz tunes, guffaw at wisecracks, they were disappointed. It was not that kind of show. Instead Chairman Legge would mount a bare platform and make a speech. His constant theme: Cut wheat acreage by 20%. But when the farmers got home at night, they were more likely to remember Mr. Legge's clenched fists, his red, sweating face, his "hells," and "damns" than his plain...
Last week the Department of Agriculture announced the results of the "Legge shows." Preliminary estimates of the 1931 wheat crop showed...
...travels around the U. S. and Canada the thing that has attracted my attention most is the fact that these cotton, wheat and other one-crop farmers do not own a single hen, cow ) or pig. Neither do they raise a single vegetable...
...Legge shows but by circulars to farmers, advertisements in the rural Press, harangues over the radio. Last week James Clifton Stone, new chairman of the Federal Farm Board, made his first excursion to the midWest to continue the "Legge shows," shout again the gospel of crop reduction. He addressed wheat co-operatives in Hutchinson, Kan. and Enid, Okla. As best he could he reiterated Mr. Legge's arguments, used the same threats, the same prayers...
...stump Mr. Legge had been dramatically aggressive on future wheat plantings because the new Board had no precedents to bother about. Over his head hung no 275.000,000 bu. (the Board's July 1 figure) of wheat "stabilized" on Government funds. He was almost a free agent...