Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wallace to deliver the checks the Farmers wanted-a maximum $400,000,000 worth annually. Whether it has conserved $400,000,000 worth of U. S. soil annually has been beside the political point. But one thing the Soil Conservation Act has not been: an effective tool for crop control...
...Deal would ask Congress for the return of the substance of AAA, modified to include 1) Mr. Wallace's "ever normal granary" scheme of storing surpluses for lean years, 2) the better features of the soil conservation program, 3) some form of AAA's prime prop-crop control. However, supporting processing taxes would be enacted as a general tax measure, not incorporated in the program as before. With that legal weakness removed, the New Deal might risk sailing its rebuilt ship before the Supreme Court once again...
...from British-mandated Palestine to French-mandated Syria of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, spiritual leader of 800,000 Arabs. Last week they got back at him by seizing the Moslem Religious Funds (the chief Moslem charitable and religious organization in Palestine), hitherto under the Grand Mufti's control. This organization has been carrying on charitable work to the value of $1,000,000 per year. When the Christians placed these funds under the direction of a board consisting of two Christians and one Mohammedan, all Islam felt a sense of outrage and all over Palestine irate Arab groups...
...dictatorial powers for the governing of North Africa in a close friend of the Premier, onetime Premier Albert Sarraut. ''You are instructed." M. Sarraut was told. "to present a survey of the colonial situation to the Cabinet as soon as possible and to outline the measures of control you intend to take...
...just having learned the awful truth. Last week's decree ends one of the last, most treasured private rights of many Soviet citizens, that of being masters in their own homes to the extent that they have had a voice in a collective which was master. Hereafter control passes to the local Soviet, thus to the party, and the ordinary Russian is now going to find the question of his lodging turning on his political standing as a citizen faithful to Stalinism...