Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court intervened to break up AAA, Ed O'Neal stayed on to help Henry Wallace salvage what he could with the Soil Conservation Act. So this year when Franklin Roosevelt, in the face of mounting agricultural production, asked Congress to amplify the slender powers the Government possessed to control it, Henry Wallace and Ed O'Neal seemed destined to work on another farm bill together...
...chief types of legislation were possible: "voluntary" crop control-giving benefit payments to cooperate in crop reduction programs and giving loans on amounts withheld from the market: and compulsory control-levying penalties on excess production. Secretary Wallace observed in his annual report last month that although voluntary methods were preferable, compulsory methods should be invoked when crop reserves on hand grew too large. So Ed O'Neal and his Federation helped draft the Pope-McGill Bill accepting the compulsory principle wholeheartedly, setting permissible crop reserves at the low levels they considered necessary to maintain prices...
...women raped and the whole city ravaged according to an immemorial custom of war. Even fleeing refugees with whom the Japanese caught up were looted of their belongings. Only after the Japanese soldiers, drunk with victory, had been out of hand for several days did officers get them under control...
Chicago is headquarters for the three medical organizations which control the operation of U. S. hospitals-American Medical Association, American College of Surgeons, American Hospital Association...
...economics is one of the most serious problems facing the nation, that he did not believe any member of the ICC yet had a good solution for the problem, that he himself had none. Of one thing Franklin Roosevelt was sure, however: the last thing he wanted was Government control of railroads...