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Located in the central part of the State 35 mi. west of Warren Gamaliel Harding's Marion, McGuffey lies in the mucklands around the Scioto River where the National Onion Growers Association controls 17,000 acres of onions and peppermint. In June the 700 men, women & children who weed the crop 10 to 12 hours a day for a maximum wage of 12 an hour struck for 35? an hour and an 8-hour day. The American Federation of Labor rushed in to organize the strikers who, finding that they got more out of the Relief Administration than they...
...last meed of God-given fertility. That is God's own command to us, as we can read in the Bible any time. But now they tell us that we raise too much. They tell us to leave some of our acres bare and watch them go to weed, and they come up and give us a little money and shoot our cattle on the ground, saying the cattle are starving and there are too many cattle anyway. God does not approve of that...
...Sotol, a distilled liquor made in Mexico from a yucca-like plant; marijuana, a drug, long common in Mexico, made from a variety of hemp weed...
...Arthur H. Weed, Jr. Memorial Cup has been donated by his classmates, the Class of 1936, for that Varsity or Freshman high jumper who turns in the best performance in the annual dual meets with Yale. The selection of the recipient rests with the captains and coaches of the Varsity and Freshman teams...
Winner of the high jump in the Fresh- man dual meet with Yale last spring, Arthur H. Weed, Jr. '86, was killed on November 4, 1933, when struck by an automobile while bicycling on Cape...