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Unyoking Mortgages. Of larger scope and hope than the price-upping bill were plans a-making at the White House last week to ease the farmers' mortgage yoke. President Roosevelt conferred long with Congressional leaders who prepared to couple a mortgage relief measure to the farm bill in the Senate. Pondered was the following proposal...
With these words in a special message - his fifth in eight days-President Roosevelt last week sent to Congress an emergency farm relief bill of staggering scope and potentiality. In an effort to beat the sun's march north it had been hastily whipped together by young, diffident Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, by alert, dapper Assistant Secretary Tugwell, by wise, bespectacled Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, new economic adviser to the Secretary and by Frederick Lee, onetime lobbyist for the major farm organizations. At the Capitol, Representative Jones of Texas whisked it into his Committee on Agriculture, summoned his colleagues, slammed...
...field, then is wide and deals primarily with the activities of man considered in relation to the natural environment. Because of this scope, the subject can be approached from diverse angles. All the activities of man may be considered region by region, or the different aspects of man's economic social, or political life in a given locality may furnish the basis of approach...
Their preliminary flashes sent, press associations began to get an idea of the scope of the story.* Treading their way across roads strewn with wreckage, reporters looked in vain for the nocturnal orchard of cherry-colored lights on the derricks of the great Signal Hill oil field. All lights were out. But two tanks at the Union Oil Co. refinery in San Pedro were ablaze...
...courses in mathematics, physics, and astronomy, respectively. The general examination is based on a rather broad knowledge of astronomy us expressed in the book by Russell, Dugan, and Stewart, and the student can see where he stands a great deal better than in some fields where a greater scope is demanded. The tutorial work is not in the nature of preparation for the general examination, but involves the aid of the tutor in solving any problem in which the student may be interested. In that way a general knowledge of astronomy and a deep knowledge of some phase...