Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court last week continued the business of weighing the velvet offered farmers by the New Deal against the marble of the Constitution, "General" Reed had on his hands three all-important cases on two prime New Deal laws. One involved the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, without which crop reductions in the South might quickly go to pot. The other two were concerned with the AAAct and its processing taxes...
...hear arguments on the case of Lee Moor v. Texas & New Orleans R.R. Co. Lee Moor is a Texas farmer with 3,500 acres, of which he normally devotes about 1,600 to growing cotton. Last year he grew some 2,700 bales of cotton, but, under the Bankhead Act, he was allotted a quota of only 855 bales, for which he was given tax-free tags...
...case of Jeff Bowers was not the only incident last week which showed that nine conscientious, overworked old men were having the time of their lives. Burdened with an immense responsibility, faced with the necessity of soon rendering decisions on the constitutionality of AAA processing taxes, the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, TVA (all probably to be argued in December) and later on the constitutionality of the Guffey Coal Act (see col. 3) and the Utilities Act, the Justices began the week by whipping off no less than 21 decisions. None of the decisions affected the New Deal but, with...
...politics, such appointments are normal. Last week Senators Black and Bankhead urged the President to appoint David J. Davis to succeed the late Judge William Irwin Grubb of Alabama who blasted NRA and TVA with adverse decisions. Prime recommendation that Senator Black gave for Mr. Davis was that he is "a strong supporter of the present Administration...
Potatoes. Having made a start on his new corn plan, Secretary Wallace started something still newer, his potato plan. Under the terms of the Potato Control Act, he announced the first national potato production quota, similar to cotton production quotas under the Bankhead Act. U. S. commercial growers may not, he decreed, raise more than 226,600,000 bu. of potatoes in 1936. Counting raisers of less than five bushels and growers for home consumption only, who are exempt by law, he guessed the total crop under this quota would be about 350,000000 bu. compared...