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...drought agents had recommended a $60,000,000 measure last October, the Department of Agriculture later whittled this estimate down to $25,000,000. Over Presidential protest the Senate Committee on Agriculture unanimously approved a bill to loan farmers the full $60,000,000 not only for feed and seed but also for food. Nor could President Hoover count on support from Senate Democrats on this issue because their leader, Arkansas Senator Robinson, dropping harmony, loudly announced for the larger figure. Declared he: "Who said $25,000,000 was enough? Some one down at the budget bureau who is only...
...mapped out his own life. The background, decoratively handled, is a dressmaking business built up by Mother Irene Rich. Her specialty is giving show girls clothes on credit, knowing they will wheedle the money out of their sweethearts. Her plans for her son go to seed when he falls in love with a girl who is one of the establishment's best paying customers. On Your Back might have been much better. It is not tightly constructed: often important sequences are skimped and irrelevant ones emphasized, but in spite of its faults it is superior to the average program...
Drills (Fertilizer, Seed and Grain...
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...Canberra last week Australian canaries were beginning to feel the pinch of singing on Australian seed instead of the imported sort to which they have been used. The embargo on chutney, peanut butter, cigarets and wine means that "Major Grey's Chutney," "BeechNut Peanut Butter," "Abdullah Cigarets" and "Mumm's Cordon Rouge" are totally excluded from Australia. It is not a question of scaling a tariff wall. This is an absolute embargo: "Peanut butter shall not pass!" The exclusion is as rigid against products of Mother England as against those of the U. S. or China...