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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debated the Pope-McGill Farm Bill, to give the Department of Agriculture power to regulate wheat, cotton, corn, rice and tobacco crop quotas (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...week of feverish work, the subcommittees finally had a bill ready to report which the full committee was expected to bring in this week. Based on regional hearings held before the session started, it included provisions for control by the Department of Agriculture of five major crops: wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Days | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Wheat and corn acreage and marketing quotas would be based on the aim of giving a bushel of either the same purchasing power it had between 1909 and 1914. The Government would impose on every bushel sold over Department of Agriculture marketing quotas a penalty tax of 50% of its price-provided that, in a referendum before the scheme goes into effect, two-thirds of the farmers affected approve the plan. Secretary Wallace's ever-normal granary would apply to both crops: the Government would begin to buy wheat for use in periods of scarcity when the supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Days | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...secretary to Manhattan's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, to Jean Harder, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan. Mr. Ryan's 1934 marriage to Austrian Countess Marie Anne Paule Ferdinandine von Wurmbrand-Stuppack was annulled. His cousin, Basil ("Pat") Ryan, was married three weeks ago while "full of North Carolina corn," to one Martha Barkley. 21, mother of a two-months-old child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...rescue. He ordered that they be permitted to put their children in rural one-room schools as they had been accustomed to. In gratitude last week 500 Mennonites and Amishmen of East Lampeter voted to give Governor Earle a turkey, a jug of cider, a pumpkin and some corn, every Christmas as long as he lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Amish Gratitude | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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