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This broad criticism of President Hoover's No. 1 farm policy caused much covert commotion in Washington. At the White House the "palace guards" (as the Hoover secretaries and advisers are called) vowed that it was Citizen Coolidge's opening bid for presidential consideration next year. Western agrarians openly mocked the attack on the Farm Board, called Mr. Coolidge "the farmers' arch-enemy." Meanwhile most Eastern editorial comment agreed with Critic Coolidge, inveighed all the louder against price stabilization as a crook-headed economic principle on which President Hoover, sooner or later, must do a politically painful...
Winnipeg wheat, out in the world marked, slumped 26? to 28? per bu. under the Chicago level. Liverpool prices, normally 15? per bu. above the Chicago price, were 15? below, at a 1896 low record. No on, not even Critic Coolidge, could say that price-fixing of wheat was not working at least temporarily...
Recalling that Sir Harry's impersonations include an idiot Scotch boy who drools into a kitchen bowl, and a Scotchman who constantly wipes his nose with his sleeve, and that Sir Harry's principal joke is still the one about stinginess, Critic Andrew Dewar Gibbs summed...
Sought out by London reporters, asked to comment, Sir Harry began to chuckle, broke into a giggle, finally roared with laughter-his only comment. Critic Gibbs flays his countrymen in general for reacting to jibes or criticism which they feel keenly "by a sham display of pretended amusement...
George W. Russell, AE, Irish poet, painter, critic, economist, dramatist, and prophet will speak at the Union on January 7, 1931 at 8 o'clock. The subject of his talk has not yet been announced...