Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...District Court in Illinois refused to grant her citizenship. In the U. S. Supreme Court, whither the case was carried, Mme. Schwimmer writhed with resentment as Acting U. S. Solicitor-General Alfred A. Wheat told the court that, if "an ordinary American housewife" held her beliefs it wouldn't matter, but that in the "brilliant Schwimmer mind'' those same beliefs were dangerous...
...Rome last week Prime Minister Benito Mussolini raised the duty on imported wheat to 140 gold lire ($7) per metric ton. This tariff is nearly 100% higher than the rate effective in September of last year. Good news for Italy's wheat growers, it was sad news for bread-eaters and macaroni men; particularly sad for U. S. and Canadian farmers, who are still racing to dispose of surplus wheat crops (TIME, May 13). To Prime Minister Mussolini the development of wheat growing is more immediately important than cheap flour for his people. Half of Italy's trade...
Having settled the wheat problem...
...Farmers. Conforming to the Hoover promise, agricultural duties were raised by the proposed Bill, but not so high as the farmer had demanded and expected. The wheat rate remained pegged at 42¢ per bushel, to which point President Coolidge had raised it from 30¢ under the flexibility provision of the tariff law. Wheat raisers could hope, however, that by the same process President Hoover might some day advance the duty to 63?...
Defense. When debate opened in the House, the bill's principal author, Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee, gave a three-hour lecture on its meaning. His chief points were: 1) tariff protection means Prosperity; 2) rates on basic commodities (beef, butter, wheat, wool, etc.) were first fixed, then related products were adjusted therefrom; 3) minor crops were given special protection to induce farmers now producing surplus cereals to turn to them as crop variants; 4) "apparent changes greatly exceed actual changes" in the bill; 5) "We should be self-sustaining and self-sufficient...