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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father Levi, descendant of Nathaniel Dickinson, Massachusetts settler of 1630, migrated to Iowa after the Civil War, bought land at $1 per acre, sold it for $6, became a well-to-do husbandman. His son did farm chores, attended common school, grew tall and solid. Ambitious, he helped pay his way through Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa) which graduated him in 1898. He studied law at Iowa State University, hung out his shingle at the age of 26 in the town of Algona. Two years later he married Miss Myrtle Call who bore him a son, a daughter. For four...
...post office (TIME, Dec. 30). Last week this kind deed was nullified. Postmaster O'Brien was informed from Washington that the $1,000 order would not count in his year's business. Postmasters were warned that those who induce stamp purchases "for the purpose of increasing their pay or affecting the allowance of facilities at their office" were open to suspicion...
Rates. What happened, legislatively speaking, was fairly simple: The present world sugar tariff rate into the U. S. is 2.20? per lb. Cuba, enjoying a 20% differential below the world rate, pays 1.76? per lb. At the demand of cane growers in Louisiana, beet growers in Colorado, Michigan and Utah, the House voted a 3? sugar rate (Cuban: 2.40?). To stifle public outcry against this increase, yet give domestic sugar producers more "protection," Senator Smoot's Finance Committee proposed a world sugar rate of 2.75? (Cuban: 2.20?). Senator Harrison of Mississippi, in the name of U. S. sugar consumers...
Next day the Senate defeated (54-to-22) a proposal by Senator Howell to pay domestic sugar producers a bounty of .44? per lb. at a cost of ten million dollars per year to the U. S. Treasury...
...declared: "If under the lash of extremists, harsh and restrictive measures are adopted toward scientific and industrial groups [using alcohol], we will witness a terrific blow to scientific and commercial progress. . . . The crippling of our institutions, our medical arts and our commercial organizations . . . is too big a price to pay for this extreme brand of Prohibition...