Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majesty which even Bishop Freeman had to admire. First came a series of decisions on cases previously argued. Only one that interested the spectators was a case challenging the right of the Government to jail a man for "obstructing interstate commerce" in that he stole a bale of cotton from a Government bonded warehouse. The Court gave no answer in the matter of law but it did agree unanimously that the man's conviction should be set aside because he had not been properly indicted. Decisions completed. Chief Justice Hughes ordered the clerk to give out a list...
...cotton and corn-hog restriction programs for next year were last week announced by AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis. Their prime points...
...Farmers must agree to reduce their cotton plantings 30% to 45% below "normal," their corn plantings 10% to 30%. They need not reduce the number of hogs they raise, must merely agree not to raise more than the normal number. So that AAA cannot in future be charged with paying men for raising nothing whatever, cotton farmers must raise at least 50% of their normal crop, corn farmers 25%, hog raisers...
...Farmers are guaranteed for 1936 not less than 5? a Ib. for cotton they do not raise. 35? a bu. for corn they do not raise, $1.25 for each hog they do raise. Every hog over their quota will cost them...
...Cotton farmers must not increase their plantings of peanuts, tobacco or rice but can grow any amount of feed or food for home use. Corn farmers must grow erosion-preventing or soil-improving crops on the land "rented" by the Government...