Word: farmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took his familiar witness' seat in the air-cooled Ways & Means Committee room, Henry Morgenthau had a nine-page statement all ready. In his resonant baritone voice the Gentleman Farmer who is Franklin Roosevelt's chief fiscal agent read off, without specifically recommending anything, the list of questions which Congress might "wish to re-examine...
...Chicago & North Western Railway Co. made its counsel, methodical Fred Wesley Sargent, its president and operating head. Last week, 63 and ailing, lawyer-railroader-gentleman Farmer Sargent resigned, having in 14 years seen the North Western win seven national rewards for safe operation...
Accompanying the squad will be Crimson Coach Jaakko Mikkoia, Yale mentor Frank Kanaly, William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, and Malcom Farmer, Director of Athletics at Yale. Roger Hooper '39, manager of the Crimson track team will precede the squad to England...
...kind of folksy Faustus, Mr. Benet's fable relates how a New Hampshire farmer, in return for ten years of prosperity, sold his soul to the devil. To his wedding in 1841 come Secretary of State Daniel Webster (to kiss the bride) and the Devil (to have his due). Neighbor Webster, the great lawyer, defends Farmer Stone before a special jury of villains out of Hell and U. S. history, wins an acquittal by touching their memories of Freedom...
Asked, at his country home, by a telephone operator, Roy Barton White, president of Western Union Telegraph Co., personally undertook to deliver a Mother's Day telegram at a farm near Annandale, N. J. The farmer handed Mr. White...