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Agriculture. Ominously Arthur Mastick Hyde began: "To the 'President: The worst drought ever recorded in this country prevailed during much of the 1930 crop-growing season and greatly reduced farm production. Widespread droughts occurred in 1881, 1894, 1901, 1911, 1916, and 1924. These . . . did not equal the drought of the present year. . . ." He then related the course of the "conference of Governors of drought-stricken States called by you," also of the Federal Drought Relief Committee, of which "at your request I have served as chairman." Production figures given in the report included...
Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde last week was to have made a formal address to 800 agriculturists meeting in Washington. But when the hour arrived he excitedly put away his prepared speech and shouted a warning that "those who did not possess strong stomachs should leave the [Hotel Willard] ballroom." Then, his voice keyed up, tears in his eyes, he proceeded to tell his auditors just what he thought of Russia. Excerpts...
...Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde expected to provide U. S. farmers with better prices for their wheat by his charge that the Soviet Government was selling short on the Chicago Board of Trade, he must have been a sorely disappointed man last week. The Board of Trade barred short sales by foreign governments. Soviet shorts covered their position. The Federal Farm Board, through its grain corporation, began to buy again. Yet within the week September wheat slumped 7 cents per bu. to a 24-year-rec-ord low of 74½ cents, as compared with the 5 cent...
...played at finance with whole nations which they considered their personal property, a super-monopolistic state has risen able to play this game, eager to try, likely to bungle the colossal gamble. Hyde's Idea. In Moscow grim smiles last week greeted U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde's naïve idea (TIME, Sept. 29) that Dictator Stalin "cannot" throw actual grain into the World market to cover his short sales because right now "the Russians find it necessary to ration their own people and to shoot men for forging food cards!" This is exactly...
President & Pit. In Washington anxious Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde told President Herbert Hoover that trade representatives of the Soviet Government have sold short "at least 5,000,000 bushels" of grain (and possibly 7,500,000 bu.) in Chicago's pit, hope to depress prices further, sow discontent among U. S. farmers...