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Into this Midwest oven last week went Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde and Chairman of the Farm Board Alexander Legge to preach the gospel of wheat acreage reduction. Before they left Washington they solemnly warned wheat producers that ahead of them lay seven lean years with "world wheat prices . . . appreciably lower than in the last seven years" (TIME, July 14). Secretary Hyde, comparing himself with Paul Revere, declared: "We are posted as sentries on the lookout towers to see what is coming. We would be derelict in our duty if we didn't warn the farmers...
...Treasury (TIME, July 7), first notable change was at the biggest, Wettest metropolis in the land. For Major Maurice Campbell, Prohibition Administrator of New York City, was substituted a stalwart, black-mustachioed Kentuckian, Andrew McCampbell, 57, personal believer in Prohibition, a Dry law enforcer of long experience in the Midwest and on the Canadian border...
...Ambassador was in Paris at the time. Upon his return to Berlin one of his first callers was a stocky, white-headed gentleman with ruddy cheeks and a piercing eye which any alert Chicagoan would instantly have recognized as belonging to Samuel Insull, public utility primate of the Midwest (and Maine). Mr. Insull had come (the United Press discovered) to see the Ambassador about the Ambassador's proposed power speech. Mr. Insull had read the speech. He did not approve certain parts of it. It was imperative that the Ambassador change those parts. Mr. Insull spent two hours closeted...
...guise of street fiddler lay bow to Stradivarius on Michigan Avenue in a curbstone concert citizens would pay $5-a-seat for if they knew what they were hearing. Stunt strictly on square with no packed audience. Will he stop the traffic on Michigan Avenue, musical centre of Midwest...
...quarter-century ago, Chicago and the Midwest were startled by the appearance, here and there amid the contemporary melange of Victorian residences, of an occasional long, low rectilinear structure with severe walls of stone or stucco, and wide, overhanging roof casting deep horizontal bands of shadow on the walls. Such houses looked simple to build, serene and solid, but their blocky squareness, their squatness, aroused comment more hostile than surprised. People with established fortunes and homes suspected that only the ''newly rich" would employ so queer an architect. In the East, with its colonial traditions and propinquity...