Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the bill reached its final test, two developments had reduced its 9 chances of passage. One was Recession, which made Congress wary of any legislation which put a new burden upon Business. The other was the discovery that no organized group, including Labor whom it was supposed to benefit, was particularly eager for the bill to pass...
...land. When Henry Wallace projected AAA which required a nation-wide executive setup to estimate crop acreages, the Farm Bureau's 1,800 functioning county organizations stepped into the breach and Ed O'Neal stepped into the Administration. Although the New Deal's lavish benefit payments helped all farm organizations, they helped big Farm Bureau Federation most. When the Supreme Court intervened to break up AAA, Ed O'Neal stayed on to help Henry Wallace salvage what he could with the Soil Conservation Act. So this year when Franklin Roosevelt, in the face of mounting agricultural...
...give Secretary Wallace more power to deal with mounting farm production than he possesses under last year's makeshift Soil Conservation Act. Both authorize him to draw up annual marketing quotas in advance for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, to obtain observance of them by means of benefit-paying voluntary contracts. Both bills agree in principle that when reserves on hand grow too large and two-thirds of the producers involved consent through a referendum, compulsory marketing control can be invoked and penalty taxes levied on further sales. Beyond that the House and Senate bills have so little...
...week there were only two constituencies in which there was more than one candidated he will be elected anyway!" President Kalinin recently retorted (TIME, Dec. 6): "It is a grave mistake to think this. ... If in our country in a number of places candidates withdraw their names for the benefit of some candidate, it is the result of their social kinship and common political purpose. . . . It is a sign of socialism last week. Defense Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov and his Marshals and Generals of the Red Army cracked out speeches all over Russia in their hoarse, parade-ground voices, calling...
...ball to benefit the South Central (Negro) district of Chicago's United Charities fortnight hence, 5,000 whites & blacks will gather to hear Negress Ethel...