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These are only a few of the major problems growing out of the plans for artificial control of agriculture. "Bootlegging," is already carried on extensively in wheat and some in pork products. The farmers are allowed to grind' flour for their own use, but many of them have been selling flour so as to avoid the 30-cent processing tax. There's pressure on Secretary Wallace to put into effect a certain tax exemption on farm-killed pork. This, it is argued, is another provocation to "bootlegging...
...torrent of communications from such organizations as the Rotary Club of Indianola, Iowa (for increased monetization of silver and extension of agricultural markets by use of War Debts), the Alaska Native Brotherhood (protesting relief discrimination), the Bakers' Association of Puerto Rico (praying for the non-application of the flour processing tax), the Holy Name Society at Saginaw, Mich, (asking closer supervision of movies). The volume of these communications was prodigious, but not so prodigious as the cloudburst of bills released by the Senators themselves- mostly individual relief and pension measures. The most arresting example of Senatorial bravura occurred...
...gift of the committee's chairman, Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty. Designed and baked in the kitchens of his Miami-Biltmore Hotel, the cake is, like the hotel, of steel frame construction. It contains 548 eggs, 75 Ib. of sugar, 50 Ib. of butter, 60 Ib. of flour, 75 Ib. of assorted fruit, 1 quart of vanilla, 3 quarts of rum and rose water. It cost $79 including $15 for labor, and occupied five men for 24 hours...
...blotted out as Tsar Boris and his svelte Tsaritsa loanna were received by King Alexander and plump Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, sister of Rumanian King Carol. After four days of gaudy Balkan pageantry, the four sovereigns saw priests break crosswise into four chunks a holy slava cake (plain white flour and yeast) in King Alexander's incense-filled Court Chapel. Digging a hole in each chunk with knives, the priests poured red wine into the holes, after which Royalty and Priest drank the wine and kissed each other. According to Jugoslav Orthodox custom, Guests Boris and loanna thus became...
...short hush for grace, fell to gobbling and talking in a cheery, noisy hum and clatter as usual. The polished brasses gleamed by the big fireplace over which a great white bust of Homer looks down his nose at the carven verse: Back of the Loaf is the snowy Flour, back of the Flour the Mill. Back of the Mill the Wheat and the Shower, the Sun and the Father's will. The boys gobbled and talked, and a master noted that two places were vacant. Down a back stair of West Dormitory and out onto the campus stole...