FARMERS: Monster in Motion

For eight years under Harding and Coolidge the Republican Party in Washington talked long and loud about farm relief but passed no major bill.

Three months after entering the White House, Herbert Hoover signed his Federal Farm Board bill which he called "The most important measure ever passed in aid of a single industry." The Farm Board lost U. S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars trying to buck the law of supply & demand, ended its days last month in discredit and failure.

Nine weeks in the White House, Franklin Roosevelt last week called...

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