Word: agriculturist
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...Whoever wrote that article [reporting that the Department of Agriculture was battling rural superstitions-TIME, May 20] is neither a scientist nor an agriculturist because, whether or not the moon influences the crop yield in general, a full moon can assist in seeding time. The light that comes from the moon is polarized, and seeds germinate better under polarized light. I am unable to quote any authority for this statement...
Shakespeare, Weeds, Fish. For amusement the Nazis lectured each other. Ley spoke on the role of private capital in rebuilding Germany. The Foreign Minister in Doenitz' short-lived surrender government, Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, discussed Shakespeare. Hans Joachim Riecke, Nazi agriculturist, described the best methods of fighting weeds, and Lieut. Colonel Ernst John von Freyand, former aide to Field Marshal Keitel, spoke freely on the breeding of fish...
...peacetime. Now, least of all, do most Americans want their war policies to be shaped by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the lady in the funny hat; or by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., who got his job via gentleman farming and publication of the American Agriculturist; or by Postmaster General Frank Walker...
...made a small fortune in real estate, was worth $200,000. At 20 he owned a warehouse, dock, 7,000 acres along the Illinois & Michigan Canal. He knew nothing about farming but he thought farmers ought to learn more about it. So in 1841 he started The Union Agriculturist and Western Prairie Farmer...
Other Ministries: Finance, Senator Yves Boutillier, who had been adviser to the aging Joseph Caillaux; Justice, Raphael Alibert; Youth & Family, Jean Ybarnégaray, a Basque Rightist Deputy, who named his fellow Basque, Tennist Jean Borotra, director of amateur sports; Agriculture, Agriculturist Pierre Caziot; Communications, Corsican Deputy François Piétri; Colonies, Martinique-born Senator Henri Lémery; Public Instruction, Senator Emile Mireaux, Industrial Production & Labor, onetime Popular Frontist Réné Belin. Though none of these men was distinguished for love of The Republic, they had a case to make...