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...heels of Judge Dawson's ruling came a revelation that Comptroller General John R. McCarl had put AAA in the worst hole of its career. When drought began to shrivel Midwestern wheat fields AAA relieved spring wheat growers of their pledge to cut their 1935 acreage by 10%, promised they would still get some $30,000,000 in benefit payments for acreage reduction. Ruled Comptroller McCarl: No reduction, no bounties...
Last week farmers in ten Midwestern States had sand in their beards, in their hair, in their ears, in their eyes, in their mouths, in their pockets, in their pants, in their boots, in their milk, coffee, soup and stew. Dust poured through the cracks in farmhouse walls, under the doors, down the chimneys. In northwest Oklahoma a hundred families fled their homes. Every school in Baca County, Colo, was closed. In Texas the windswept hayfields were alive with blinded sparrows. Methodist congregations in Guymon, Okla. met three times a day to pray for rain._ Originally confined...
...sped to Washington to see about $500,000 worth of free gasoline from FERA to power 200,000 tractors to plough furrows to stop the ravages of Kansas' winds. While he was getting his gasoline he stopped long enough to mention that in May the Republicans of ten Midwestern States were planning to convene and write a platform for a bigger, better, sounder and more liberal G. O. P. Head of the resolutions committee at this meeting would be William Allen White of Emporia...
...skin-narrative can be shortly told. Eugene Gant, youngest of his family, at 19 leaves his Southern home and goes to Harvard. His father, a Jeremiah miscast, is slowly dying. In Cambridge Eugene studies hard at his playwriting course, makes many a queer acquaintance, one good friend: Starwick, a Midwestern esthete. After going home for his father's funeral, and finishing his Harvard course, Eugene goes to Manhattan, teaches English for a while at a downtown college, then goes abroad. He gets little good out of England, finds Paris more to his taste. There he meets Starwick again, spends...
...England, greyhound raising is fashionable. In the U. S. it is practiced principally by Midwestern Indians, who have time and space to train their dogs. More interesting to breeders than last week's races is the National Coursing meet run semiannually at Abilene, Kans. for the purpose of testing speed and stamina. Short-lived, delicate, savage as wolves, greyhounds wear muzzles when they run to prevent them from biting each other to death. Extracting the live hare, traditional coursing quarry, does not decrease the cruelty of the sport. Greyhounds are taught to pursue mechanical rabbits by developing a thirst...