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Last week Agriculture's farm servicing organization (streamlined by Henry Wallace) swung into action, sought cotton-belt backing for the Perkins plan. It also sought to get farmers to put their freed acreage into the production of food and feed crops, badly needed in the South. In that way the Perkins plan became more than mere peacetime New Dealism, took on a defense coloration. For defense is multiplying the South's army of industrial workers, and industrial workers must eat well to work well. If the South, traditionally an importer of food from other sections of the country...
...carting grist from the mill to his midwestern farm, when his wagon bogged down in the mud. A Negro living nearby went to his rescue, but night fell on an unbudged wagon. So Meharry accepted the Negro's offer of shelter in his hut. Next morning they freed the wagon. Said the pious farmer to his helper: "I have no money to repay your great kindness. But I hope some day to be able to do something for you and your people." There were five Meharry brothers: Alexander, Hugh, Samuel, Jesse and David - all prosperous farmers or preachers...
Pleas for bail seemed futile, but sympathetic friends promised to bring books for midyear preparation. Cursing everything concerned with skates and ice, Snyder and Hibbert were contemplating a "break" when an unidentified blonde freed them...
...commander (he sank 55,000 tons of Allied shipping), he was pastor of the swank Jesus Christus Kirche in Berlin's socialite suburb Dahlem and led the Confessional Synod's attack on Naziism until clapped into jail in July 1937 for "misuse of the pulpit." The court freed him when he came to trial in February 1938, but the Gestapo promptly hustled him off to concentration camp at Sachsenhausen. There he remains, all rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, having refused release offered to him on condition that he promise to cease preaching...
...Ramon Serrano Suner, Spanish Foreign Minister, sat down with British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare in Madrid and signed a commercial agreement that freed frozen Spanish credits in Britain and provided the basis for a revival of Anglo-Spanish trade. Opening transactions included the sending of 6.000 tons of manganese ore, urgently needed by the Spanish steel industry, and a cargo of jute from India. Spain contracted to send her entire export crop of bitter oranges and large quantities of sweet oranges to England, and was assured of an end to difficulties over the import of seed potatoes...