Word: compacted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he will not have to rummage for it when he makes his getaway. Sensitive of other people's feelings to the point of anguish, he will sometimes blurt out what he fears is an unpalatable truth, then hastily cover up his remark with polite qualifications. Conversationally compact of nods and becks and wreathed smiles, he is a very different sort of fellow at his writing table...
...individual states operating by mutual arrangement under identical state laws shall impose penalties on farmers who grow more than their quotas. Such state control, however, does not eliminate the Federal Government from the picture. Says the Constitution: "No State shall, without the consent of Congress . . . enter into agreement or compact with another State." Last week's law was drafted to give the necessary Congressional consent. Likewise it called for the imposition by the Federal...
...Tobacco commissions from each state party to the compact shall sit together, estimate consumption for the type of tobacco in question, go home and allot quotas to each tobacco farm in each state, based on the quota system...
...state voluntarily drops out or is prevented by injunction from fulfilling its part of the compact, the laws of the other states in that compact would be suspended...
...Arch-enemy of the Roosevelt Administration that he is, Governor Talmadge of Georgia, the fourth state which produces flue-cured tobacco (used in cigarets), will call no special session of his legislature to pass a New Deal law. Therefore the Federal legislation provides that for 1936 the compact should go into effect if the growers of Georgia form an association to carry out a similar voluntary program and the other two states pass...