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...once strongest political front. With his tongue in his apple cheek he called attention to the dreadful price-slumps which had not followed the demise of AAA: "President Roosevelt on May 30, 1935, prophesied that 'if we abandon crop control, wheat will immediately drop to 36? a bushel and cotton to 5? a pound.' He felt the same about hogs. I do not know how long a time there is in 'immediately.' It is more than a week...
...Hoover office to be treated to encyclopedic and immensely helpful disquisitions on current national and international problems. Their mentor's name did not appear in the resulting dispatches, but the grateful newsmen saw to it that the Secretary of Commerce's light was not hidden under a bushel...
Critical laurels by the bushel went to tense young Actor Meredith and his partner Margo, whom Filmen Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur retrieved from a Manhattan cabaret last year for their Crime Without Passion. For his many scenes of undoubted power and beauty, Playwright Anderson was credited with having at least provided a theatrical experience not to be missed by those who take the U. S. Theatre seriously...
STRICTLY ILLEGAL POTATOES FOR SALE, flaunted the heading of a three-column, bold-face advertisement in two Genesee Valley, N. Y. newspapers last week. Therein one Porter Ralph Chandler offered to sell, "when, as and if grown," six bushels of potatoes, promised that he would not ask the Secretary of Agriculture for permission to grow them, would not pay a 45? per bushel penalty tax for neglecting to secure such permission. Prospective buyers were warned that they would be equally liable with the seller to a $1.000 fine...
...fine; for a second offense, a year in jail, an additional $1,000 fine or both. No farmer, under the same penalty, may sell potatoes without such containers and stamps. No farmer can get the necessary official stamps unless he 1) pays a tax of 45¢ a bushel, or 2) receives tax-exemption stamps from the Secretary of Agriculture. No farmer can get tax-exemption stamps except for a potato production quota allotted him by the Secretary of Agriculture. No farmer can get a quota unless he makes an application supported by evidence 1) proving that potatoes were raised...