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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their main target was the Hope-Aiken Act (TIME, June 28), under which the Government is free to lower price supports from 90% to 60% of parity after 1950. Led by Georgia's white-haired H. L. Wingate, the Southerners fought a three-day battle behind closed committee doors for a resolution urging Congress to repeal the Hope-Aiken Act, keep price supports at 90% of parity...
Kline thought the Hope-Aiken Act and its sliding scale of price props were just right. The Middle Western farmers thought so too, helped Kline defeat the Southern proposal and got the federation to go on record in favor of the Hope-Aiken Act. But it also urged Congress to enact a permanent law making any agricultural commodity eligible for price support. No one suggested that the farmers prove they were the free enterprisers they fancied themselves by eventually doing away with all price supports, any more than other businessmen would do away with tariffs...
...between 1% and 2½% a record into the musicians' welfare fund, about the same as before. Estimated royalties: $2,000,000 a year. The peace pact was tentatively drawn two months ago. It was held up to make sure that it did not violate the Taft-Hartley Act, which bans the paying of royalties into union-controlled welfare funds. The solution, approved by Attorney General Tom Clark: an independent fund with a nonunion administrator...
...ACT OF LOVE (577 pp.) - Ira Wolfert-Simon & Schuster...
...circle of fear. He feared life and, when war came, feared death. He trembled before the burdens of love and dreaded the void left by its absence. Watching himself as if he were a diseased stranger, relishing his troubles as if they were sweet delicacies, he could never act simply or spontaneously. Even after he had seen action as a naval flyer in the Pacific, he knew that his real war had to be fought within himself...