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...18¢ per bu. per annum), and the storage space it occupies will be needed for the 1931 crop. Idaho's Senator Borah proposes shipping it to the hungry Chinese (who do not know how to eat wheat) or burning it all up (Argentina was last week discussing corn for fuel, as during...
Meanwhile President Hoover found a man to take the place of Alexander Legge and thus complete the Board's membership. He was 67-year-old Samuel Henry ("Sam") Thompson of Quincy, Ill., president of the potent American Farm Bureau Federation. Mr. Thompson owns a 500-acre corn farm which his son operates. He heads a country bank but for years his real profession has been organizing agriculture. In 1924 he was advocating the Equalization Fee form of Farm Relief before a House Committee when a Congressman challenged his right to speak for farmers. Mr. Thompson hustled back to Illinois, returned...
...boys. But the boys were beginning to arrive, there was much to be done, and the father of the Negro family had left in a huff. Out to the kitchen bustled White Cassock to tell the harassed Negro mother: "All we wish for supper is some nice corn-cakes...
...kernels of corn for the hungry child, the drippings from the mouth of the merciful mule! . . . These people are going to suffer beyond the power of human language to portray. . . . When did these picayunish objections to feeding the hungry first appear? They appeared when the income tax payers became afraid of an increase in taxes...
Recently the bandy-legged little Mahatma has abandoned even goat's milk as too luxurious, subsisted on a mixture of parched Indian corn, California raisins and bird seed. Ordered by telegraph to release St. Gandhi, the British Governor of Yerovda jail in Poona, incredulous, delayed to act, demanded "written orders." When these came St. Gandhi, arrested in the dead of night last May, was released in the dead of night. In London the Opposition press raged against the Viceroy's jail delivery, declared that he would be in "an almost ludicrously humiliating position" if the Gandhites continued...