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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establish a Federal Farm Board to promote the effective merchandising of agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce and to place agriculture on a basis of economic equality with other industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Constructive Start | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...conference intends to establish a business service to cut down on denominational waste, balance U. S. "over-churching'' and "under-churching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Buck Hill Falls | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...continue to place a premium on such action, and take no steps to punish it, future transatlantic planes will have to be built with special cabins for stowaways, and Congress will have to establish some new honor to confer on such people. On the other hand if Schrieber received a jail sentence or a heavy fine, which would offset the thousands he is making now, the danger of the recurrence of such actions would be greatly lessened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CENSURE WHERE IT IS DUE | 6/20/1929 | See Source »

...birthplace of Homer. Almost as many in the U. S. claim to be the birthplace of the Republican party. When the party came into being in the early 1850's, slavery was the prime issue. When last week the town of Ripon, Wis. (population 4,000) attempted to establish its title to "founding" the Republican party 75 years ago, Prohibition, in the form of Dry raids by U. S. agents, overshadowed the news of the celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephant & Lincoln | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Willie Weams, the groom. Divot Meg, the village's woman, out of compassion for Nancy, swore it was the master, then strangled Nancy's mother lest she quaver her own doubts in the matter. Others, less generous, preferred to believe it was the groom; hoped thereby to establish superiority over the spirited little orphan. The flaccid minister took her in; his wife sanctimoniously bullied her; his old mother defended her in malicious warfare with the wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blaze of Beauty | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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