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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill authorizing $7,000,000 for continued warfare by the Department of Agriculture upon the corn borer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...bill by Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon designed to meet the objections of President Coolidge and at the same time retain the favor of citizens who think that a thing called the Equalization Fee spells emancipation for Honest John Farmer. Just exactly what Honest John Farmer thinks about it is hard to tell, because he raises such a variety of crops with such various success that his attitude toward national farm relief legislation varies greatly and his many spokesmen often disagree. But the new McNary Bill, not to be confused with the oldtime McNary-Haugen Bill of which this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Farm Bill | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...passed, the McNary Bill provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Farm Bill | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...McNary Bill passed the Senate 53 votes to 23. Only seven Senators from west of the Mississippi voted or paired against it-Borah, Phipps, Shortridge, Warren, Smoot, Walsh, King. Of the Senate's eight Presidential possibilities, the Messrs, Borah, Goff and Walsh were the only ones who stood against what Honest John Farmer is said to want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Farm Bill | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...length, the new McNary Bill went from the Senate to the House, there to be wedded, if possible, to a new Haugen Bill and redebated. Many a non-believer in the bill would vote for it, observers guessed, if they felt sure the President was going to use his veto. Then, when the bill goes back to Congress, the opportunists will make sure that the veto is not overridden by a two-thirds vote. Such has been McNary-Haugen history in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Farm Bill | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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