Word: agriculturist
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...ambassador to Turkey, was to be made Governor of the Farm Credit Administration upon the abolition of the Farm Board of which he was appointed chairman. A Dutchess County neighbor of President Roosevelt, he served under him as New York State Conservation Commissioner. He publishes the American Agriculturist, runs a 1,400-acre fruit and dairy farm. Said he: "Our idea is to fix the credit structure so that a farmer can borrow money for planting, harvesting and upon his land all in one spot...
Henry Morgenthau Jr. of Manhattan, son of the onetime Ambassador to Turkey, publisher of the American Agriculturist, was appointed and confirmed as a member of the Federal Farm Board...
...week: "As I looked up I saw a commanding figure 6 ft. tall, with the strength of a giant in his powerful hands and arms. With his ruddy cheeks, blue overalls and a kindly twinkle in his eyes, he struck me as being the ideal representative of the Iowa agriculturist." But Mr. Cook was no farmer. Born in New York State, he had lived in Iowa more than half a century, first as a grain dealer, later as a farm implement merchant...
...unduly modest misstatement. Albert Brisbane's writings were prosy, meatless, platitudinous. Their most apparent influence on Arthur Brisbane's style is in the persistent use of capital letters. Sample: "The great Agriculturist . . . whose genius causes the earth to bloom more luxuriantly . . . and the great Mechanician . . . must be honored as highly as the scheming Politician or the intriguing Statesman, whose intrigues fill the World with conflict and discord." Son Arthur Brisbane carries capitals further. Samples of last week: "It pays to THINK AND WORK. NEITHER, BY ITSELF, WILL CARRY YOU FAR. . . ." "No nation could exist HALF STARVED AND HALF...
...president of the Society is no less eminent a Jew than Lewis L. Strauss, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and that the other officers are no less eminent Jews than Henry Morgenthau Jr., the son of the former American Ambassador to Turkey and now publisher of the American Agriculturist and Chairman of Governor Roose velt's Agricultural Commission, who has this year been elected vice-president of the Jewish Agricultural Society...