Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steam whistle on a fertilizer factory." Two years in the Cabinet, Secretary Hyde helped to pick the Federal Farm Board to rid Florida of the Mediterranean fruit fly, to make himself silly with charges that Soviet Russia, by short sales in Chicago, was deliberately trying to depress U. S. wheat prices. Washington life has not diminished his liking for pie, buttermilk, cigars, chess, fishing in the Ozarks...
...Federal Farm Board last week was passed its final stack of chips to play the wheat and cotton markets. Congress voted it $100,000,000-last of its original $500,000,000 allowance-with the implication that it must make good on its stabilization program or quit...
...passing the Farm Board's ultimate appropriation Senators openly deplored its open market policy as a "sheer gamble with public funds." An effort to end its wheat and cotton speculation was beaten (55-to-26) only because Senators did not want to shoulder the responsibility of "hamstringing" its operations at a time when failure by its own action was widely anticipated. Applause rose from the galleries when small, precise Senator George of Georgia declaimed: "Four years more of Herbert Hoover and we'll be fortunate if we don't have to turn the Treasury into a community...
...going White House"-defiantly flung his party's challenge. He announced that he had no other choice than to tack his relief amendment onto all subsequent supply bills, unless Congress would immediately vote $50,500,000 worth of relief legislation, plus 20,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat to feed the hungry. Senator Robinson listed his requirements as follows...
There were few newsworthy appointments. Potent, shambling Aristide Briand maintains his traditional post as Minister of Foreign Affairs.* In the Ministry of Agriculture-where occurred the Wheat Scandal that felled the Steeg Cabinet-is none other than kinetic André Tardieu himself. Sad-eyed Georges Leygues of the sweeping mustachios lost his post as Minister of Interior to the new Prime Minister. Gigantic, limping André Maginot, Tardieu's sabre-rattling Minister of War, held the same post again last week...