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...boundary of Boston, wrote to Washington asking whether Massachusetts farmers could cooperate at $5 a hog-head. "Certainly," came back the answer. Like Paul Revere, County Agent MacDougal spread the news through every Middlesex village and farm. Presently he sent to AAA contracts promising that modest Middlesex would???as a favor and for a price?reduce its production from nearly 100,000 per year to 73,000 hogs...
...interests, Mr. Herrick continued so politically potent that he twice declined to become Secretary of the Treasury, when offered that post by Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. Finally President Taft found a plum to tempt "the man from Cleveland." Would he accept the U. S. Ambassadorship to France? Mr. Herrick would???but for a strange, sound reason?at that time, 1912, his hobby was industrial credits, and he deemed the methods of the Credit Fonder of France the most advanced and worthy of study...
...with whom I spent five hours at his experimental plant, told me he had made up his mind to discontinue absolutely and permanently in any publication owned by him all articles such as those that had given offense to Jews. He added that if his orders were violated he would???I quote his words?'shut the thing down completely and throw out the machinery...
...never made any money, but he made a lot of friends. He became 'Brother Hart' to thousands of his fellow-citizens. And after a while he loomed up as a good man to have as Lieutenant-Governor. But nobody thought of running Louis Hart for Governor?and nobody ever would???if Governor Lister hadn't taken ill and abdicated, leaving the office to easy-going Louis...