Word: grained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these mass Russian malnutritions the Dictator is serenely responsible. According to Red lights, his conscience is clear. First, the grain stores of the Red Army must be kept bumper full. Then the Proletariat or urban workers must have next call on Russia's food. If, as often happens, there is not enough food left after the State's forcible food collections to nourish properly the Russians who grew it, then Comrade Stalin must be sorry...
...case may be, the grain or gold now goes where it does the most good-into government stocks. Last week, however, the Kremlin Dictatorship, clear though their consciences are, were humanly vexed when Hearst's American Newspapers Inc. released a whole series of Soviet famine pictures. These should have been confiscated by Soviet frontier guards, some of whom may expect a wigging...
...suit, a spare, tight-lipped little man walked into a room in the Department of Agriculture one day last month, obligingly posed for cameramen. Secretary Wallace glared at him from the other end of the chamber. So did Secretary Roper and Attorney General Cummings. This Cabinet trio, constituting the Grain Futures Commission of the U. S., had summoned him before them to begin hearings in the biggest case ever handled by that tribunal. The little man was Arthur William Cutten, whom the Government described as "the greatest speculator this country ever had." Had he or had he not lied...
Quickly the Government ticked off its charges. Mr. Cutten had misreported or had failed to report in 1930-31 his long & short positions of 500,000 bu. or more, as the Grain Futures Act requires. He had split his trading into 35 accounts in eight brokerage houses, putting the accounts under the names of relatives and associates. While each account seldom went over 500,000 bu., the total of all accounts often exceeded that amount. Would Mr. Cutten please show cause why he should not be barred from trading...
Last week the Cabinet trio was ready with its decision. It declared that on six counts the facts were true, ordered Speculator Cutten to be suspended from all U. S. grain exchanges for two years...