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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Odds & Ends, 1) an appropriation of $4,000,000 for four regional research laboratories to investigate new uses, markets, and by-products for farm commodities; 2) the appropriation of $20,000,000 unexpended balance from the $500,000,000 Soil Conservation Act appropriation to finance a new Federal Crop Insurance Corporation empowered to issue policies to farmers against crop disaster; 3) a provision to limit payments to any one farmer in any one State to $10,000; 4) the recognition in principle of outright payments to farmers to make up the difference between market and "parity prices," which will...
Costs. What the administration of the Act would cost, neither Chairman Smith, nor Chairman Jones, nor any of its sponsors ventured to say. While the House and Senate bills were being drawn up, President Roosevelt asked that the appropriations be kept within the $500,000,000 appropriated to administer the Soil Conservation Act. Some Congressional estimates ran as high as $1,500,000,000. Assumption was, however, that Secretary Wallace could use his discretionary power over crop loans to keep the cost near the President's figure. Like the Soil Conservation Act, the Act provided for no compensating revenues...
...which has the same general objectives, rests not on the taxing power but specifically on the powers of Congress to: 1) regulate interstate commerce, and 2) promote the general welfare. As a further safeguard against the Court, the drafters of the AAA of 1938 inserted a provision separating the Act into sections dealing with each crop, so that the whole Act could not be thrown out by one adverse decision. But perhaps the strongest safeguard was arithmetic. Of the five Justices whose majority opinion threw out the AAA of 1938, neither Willis Van Devanter nor George Sutherland will ever write...
...Balkans a monarch must often act with vigor if he expects to stay King, and at Bucharest last week Carol von Hohenzollern suddenly made himself as much a Dictator as was his brother-in-law, the late King Alexander of Yugoslavia, assassinated at Marseille (TIME. Oct. 15, 1934, et seq.). Carol II has long hankered after the absolutism of his Hohenzollern kinsman Wilhelm II. Last week's crisis broke after Premier Octavian Goga received two heavy blows: 1) his entire slate of anti-Semitic decrees was declared unconstitutional; and 2) a brawl in which Goga's own political...
Equally pious was an act reported last week from India. The Safety First Association sponsored the unveiling of a statue of St. Christopher, patron of travelers, in one of Bombay's biggest bus stations...