FARM BOARD SCANDAL
(Press Assn.-
COTTON OFFICIAL ADMITS DRAWING HUGE SALARY GROWERS' INCOME COMPARED
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Kec. Nov. zy, d.o p.m. WASHINGTON, Saturday. Senators mquiring into the Federal Farm Board's actlvities roughly handled offieials of the board's marketing organisation when diseussing the large paper losses sustained in the wheat and cotton dealings. Citizens of Norris, Nebraska, asserted that the marketing agerits' and offieials' salaries were too highMr. E. F. Creekmore, president of the American Cotton Assoeiation, said that he received a salary of 25,000 dollars plus 50,000 dollars hy way of bonus. Senator Wheeler, of Montana, asked Mr. Creekmore what was the average cotton grower's income, Mr. Creekmore replied: About 300 dollars a year. Senator Wheeler: "And you represent these poor devils at a salary of 75,000 dollars a year?"
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 84, 30 November 1931, Page 5
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