Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Agricultural Adjustment Act was rewritten in 1935, it authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to arrange marketing agreements on almost every kind of farm produce except honey. Last week, bees were finally brought under the supervision of the U. S. Government when the President signed a special bill authorizing Secretary Wallace to enter into marketing agreements with beekeepers...
Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith, chairman of the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee, plans a committee junket this fall into the farm hinterlands to study conditions first hand, then report a bill for enactment next session. Therefore, when he learned that Messrs. Bilbo and Black had 40 names on their petition Cotton Ed stormed into the Senate: "Mr. President ... I think it is unfair to the committee. . . . We are studying the problem and doing the best we can to solve it. The farmer himself is only afraid of suffering because of the act of God. He has reduced...
...Vetoing a bill to change the name of the Chemical Warfare Service of the U. S. Army to the Chemical Corps, the President expressed his views on the use of poison gas in general...
...Passed and sent to the House the Wagner Housing Bill...
...Passed the Court Bill and sent it to conference...