DECLINE IN WHEAT
INVESTIGATION URGED BY SENATOR TRADING OFFICIALS CHARGED Reed. noon. WASHINGTON, Monday. Senator Nye has demanded a senatorial investigation into the wheat decline. charging the grain traders with conspiring to defeat the purposes of the Federal Farm Board. He asked that officials of the Farmers’ National Grain Corporation be subpoenaed immediately. and marked three specific subjects for investigation. Senator Nye asked for investigation as to whether “the first Farm Board had fairly interpreted the Agricultural Marketing Act and carried out its purposes; secondly, has the so-called grain trade of America conspired to destroy the purpose and effectiveness of the Act, or instigated such programmes in the world market as would tend to press the market for American agricultural products: and thirdly, have banking or credit interests aided this co-called trade?”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 912, 4 March 1930, Page 11
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132DECLINE IN WHEAT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 912, 4 March 1930, Page 11
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