Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress President Roosevelt sent a message advising repeal of: 1) the Bankhead Act, 2) the Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act, 3) the Potato-Control Act, which Washington has assumed would be found unconstitutional as soon as the Supreme Court got around to them. The President's reason for repeal: They are now useless having been "auxiliary" to the late...
...Bankhead Cotton Control Act unconstitutional along with...
...these subsidiary questions, the first two in acting on the case of Louisiana rice millers who obtained a temporary injunction against payment of processing taxes (TIME, Dec. 2), the third in deciding the case of a Texan who sued a railroad which refused to transport his cotton because the Bankhead Act's taxes had not been paid on the shipment...
Actually the Court mopped up only Question No. 1. It ordered that processing taxes paid in escrow to the courts be returned. On the right of processing tax payers to sue for recovery the court was silent. The Bankhead Act case was dismissed on technical grounds...
...Bankhead Act's validity will not be officially settled before the Supreme Court decides the suit brought by the State of Georgia (Governor Eugene Talmadge...