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Other Campbell suggestions: 1) require "good milling wheat" for all future contract deliveries; 2) eliminate "on track" deliveries and "bids and offers" * in the Chicago market; 3) prohibit Minneapolis trading in four grades of wheat higher in value than the highest grade recognized by the Department of Agriculture; 4) compel short sellers to deliver the same quality of grain as the farmer delivers; 5) declare a six-month debt moratorium for wheat farmers; 6) let the Farm Board pledge no more wheat sales. Declared Mr. Campbell hopefully: "By use of the present laws and my suggestions the price of wheat...
...York allows immunity to be granted to an actual briber, so that the State may discover and punish the public servant bribed; 2) In the case of a person who has only conspired to bribe or otherwise break the law, the State of New York does not compel him to testify against himself; without specially enacted authority, no judge or legislative committee can relieve him of the risk of prosecution...
...Government hastened to appeal its adverse decision which, if lost in the Supreme Court, would compel the Treasury to refund more than $50,000,000 collected under Section 3O2C...
Said militant Governor Harry Woodring, who as yet has failed to compel Cities Service to cut rates: "It's a mighty splendid thing...
...were appointed dictator for one hour for all India, the first thing I would do would be to close without compensation all liquor shops, destroy all toddy palms from which liquor is locally extracted, compel factory owners to produce humane conditions for workmen, and open refreshment and recreation rooms where workmen could get innocent drinks and equally innocent amusement...