Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ears had already discovered that the only man who could very well do something was Franklin Roosevelt. In his Commodity Credit Corporation's purse he had $135,000,000 with which he could peg the price of cotton at 10? or 9?. Long ago Congress had turned over control of that purse to the Executive Department. Cotton-conscious Congressmen squirmed and realized that they were the very ones who had stood or tried to stand in the way of Franklin Roosevelt's pet Wages & Hours and Housing Bills...
President Roosevelt had the opportunity to take immediate advantage of his opposition's adversity and demand whatever he wished. Without promising to release any pegging funds, he had so far contented himself with a sermon on the need of crop control...
...into the Senate: "Mr. President ... I think it is unfair to the committee. . . . We are studying the problem and doing the best we can to solve it. The farmer himself is only afraid of suffering because of the act of God. He has reduced his acreage but he cannot control the seasons. . . . There is a law which empowers the Commodity Credit Corporation to meet the emergency...
...month's interval, during which its chairman, Montana's Burton K. Wheeler, was busy with the Court fight, was Broker Robert R. Young of Manhattan. Most sensational development of the week was that 40 year-old Broker Young, who with his partners Kirby and Kolbe acquired control of the huge Van Sweringen railroad empire by buying a majority in Alleghany Corp. for a mere $6,000,000, had less shrewdly spent $15,000 for 60 campaign books which he had then "scattered all over Texas and Oklahoma among my friends and relatives." Said unhappy Broker Young, whose presence...
...school, for the past 21 years a desultory, disinterested member of Congress: to succeed the late James J. Dooling as leader of Tammany Hall. By his election a Congressman for the first time became boss of Tammany. Expected was a shake-up of Democratic plans to recover control of New York City from Fusion Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia who is up for re-election next fall (TIME, Aug. 2). Left, By Automan Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudson Motors), onetime (1932-33) U. S. Secretary of Commerce; an estate of $7,311,616. After the deduction of minor bequests, one-third goes...