Word: farm
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Indirect aid will be given by increased tariff rates on farm products, if the Ways and Means Committee can succeed in pushing its plan through Congress. The House is expected to pass the bill without difficulty, but the Senate may "load to down" by trying to include protection or manufactured products. By both the direct and indirect methods Congress is responding to the farmers appeals which admit of no delay...
...most significant and far reaching issues of the election is the adoption by California by a large majority of the amendment to the alien land-tenure act. The existing law, adopted in 1913, prohibits actual ownership of farm lands to aliens who are ineligible for American citizenship. The amendment, however, takes away from such aliens the privilege of even leasing lands for three years and will place minor land-owning aliens under the guardianship of a public administrator. The movement is based on the apprehension of a menacing increase in Japanese immigration...
...second race will be between the 1922 Crew B, and the B and C Crews for 1923. Interdormitory races, between the first and second crews of the three Freshman halls, will complete the program. All the races will he rowed downstream, on the mile course between the Cottage Farm and Harvard bridges. Tomorrow, races are slated between the third, fourth and fifth Dormitory crews on a half-mile course upstream...
This is exactly what lies at the root of the farmer's demands to the Federal Reserve Board to discount their warehouse, receipts. They wish to hold their grain for a better market, and thus keep prices up. Of course falling values in farm produce make it hard for the farmer; but it is no harder for him than for all other producers whose commodities are also falling...
Thursday. Headquarters, Harvard 6. Luncheon will be served there at 12.30 P. M. The wives of the members are invited to be the guests at luncheon of Mrs. John E. Thayer at George Hill Farm, Lancaster. They will meet in the '85 reception room at the Hotel Somerset...