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...price created a new threat-namely, nullification of the 42? wheat tariff. If the world price dropped another 10? to 15? per bu. money could be quickly made by shipping wheat to the U. S. and selling it to the Farm Board. Chairman Legge wrote to Senator Capper thus...
...Sample Senate bills calling for large outlays: $500,000,000 road building (Iowa's Brookhart), $500,000,000 River & Harbor development (Minnesota's Shipstead), $30,000,000 free wheat distribution by Federal Farm Board (Kansas' Capper), $50,000,000 increased War Veterans pension (Alabama's Black), $150,000,000 public works (Illinois' Glenn), $10,000.000 Mediterranean fruit fly relief (Florida's Trammel), $100,000,000 free jobless relief (Massachusetts' Walsh). A half dozen measures have been introduced in the House providing for $4,000,000,000 to cash soldier bonus certificates...
...Ponts and John Jacob Raskob. He published a list of 25 businessmen "determined that the Dry cause shall have the fair trial which it merits." Most notable name on this list: H. W. Hoover (no kin), vacuum cleaner man of North Canton, Ohio. Other names: Senator Arthur Capper, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Admiral William S. Sims, Horace Taft...
...contest, of which this was the seventh annual repetition, was sponsored by the Standard Farm Papers and the farm press of Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas. But whereas the best prizefighter in the U. S. can make a million dollars a year, the best cornhusker in the U. S. gets only $100 over and above wages, plus a reputation around home for being an extra good farm hand...
...Kansas Republican Senator Arthur Capper is campaigning for reelection. Excerpt : "This is no time to put Democrats in power-the Lord knows it is all the Republicans can do to keep things going in times like these...