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Bill. Thus propelled from the 75th Congress was the third major Farm Bill of the Roosevelt Administration, aimed at regulating the production and prices of the U. S. four major crops-wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco-also rice. Three major types of legislation provided models: the voluntary crop control insured by the first AAA through loans and benefit payments; the compulsory control enforced by penalties for overproduction introduced in the Bankhead Cotton Act and .the Tobacco Act; the voluntary reduction of soil-depleting acreage to encourage which the Government paid farmers $500,000,000 a year under the Soil Conservation...
...first to climb on the Roosevelt bandwagon in California in 1932. Last month Jefty O'Connor handed Franklin Roosevelt his resignation as titular head of the national bank system, possibly because he plans to run for Governor of California. Last week Jefty dispatched to Congress the 75th annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency - a 208-page booklet summarizing not only the status of U. S. national banks as of last June 30 but also Jefty O'Connor's accomplishments in almost five years of work...
...bulwark of low churchmen in the Episcopal and Anglican churches is the Evangelical Education Society. Last week there arrived in Manhattan a great Anglican evangelical, Rt. Rev. Joseph Wellington Hunkin, 50, Lord Bishop of Truro, scheduled to be chief speaker at the society's 75th anniversary meeting in Philadelphia this week. An able pulpit orator, Dr. Hunkin will spend a month in the U.S., preach in Episcopal churches and seminaries in Detroit, Boston, Washington, Richmond...
Representative Matthew Anthony Dunn of Pennsylvania is the only blind man in the 75th U. S. Congress.* A onetime Pittsburgh newsdealer who says that he "would rather be a radical than a rubber stamp," curly-headed Democrat Dunn often rises, black glasses blazing, to harangue his collagues, who rarely listen to him, on such subjects as patent pools, monopoly, or the insufficiency of Relief expenditures. Before the holiday adjournment, Representative Dunn ascended the speaker's rostrum, caroled several stanzas of Oh Come, All Ye Faithful and played his harmonica to an all but empty house...
...Mitty, marched into the bondholders' offices, bought back the college for $715,000. Last week the bells of St. Mary's rang loud & clear as a procession headed by Archbishop Mitty marched across its campus before its 450 students, celebrated with pomp & ceremony the college's 75th anniversary...