Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More striking were Franklin Roosevelt's gestures to those who have grown alarmed by mounting Government deficits and recalled his 1932 promise to balance the budget. First was a veto which he imposed on a bill for $50,000,000 for seed & crop loans to farmers. Calling attention to the fact that the sum was not provided for in his budget, he declared that any money used for that purpose should properly come out of relief funds. Congressional pain at the veto was considerably alleviated when a few days later he allocated $30,000,000 from relief funds...
...Angeles the pick of the prodigy crop seemed to be Felix Abcede, 9, a chubby, black-haired Filipino who played last December in the Philharmonic auditorium, created such a furor that he was perched on a chair to receive autograph hounds. Young Felix was scheduled to play in San Francisco soon afterwards. That concert never came off because his parents were at odds and his teacher raised a fracas. Victim was the boy violinist, a pawn now involved in a bitter legal controversy. Often he has been told that he is greater than Heifetz or Kreisler...
...which originally gave the Secretary of Agriculture permission to spend his spare time and any odd change available in preventing soil erosion (TIME, Jan. 27). The "amendment" gave him power for two years to pay farmers not only for preventing erosion but for conserving "fertility" by growing soil-conserving crops (e. g., clover) instead of various cash crops (e. g., cotton, corn, wheat) whose price Congress wants to boost. The bill limits the amount that he may spend for this purpose to $500,000,000 a year. By not imposing any taxes to raise this money (taxes are to come...
...Agriculture not to raise the price of farm products to a point that would cause consumers to pay more proportionally for food than in pre-War days, to prohibit the grazing of cattle on land taken out of crop production, were all voted down with ease. One important amendment to the bill was adopted: flood control was added to the things on which Secretary Wallace could spend money, thus opening up to him vast opportunities to alter the natural drainage system of the U. S. The Court. Best oratorical efforts of the debate were devoted to the Supreme Court...
...would like to see the Republican party take over intact the planks in the 1932 Democratic platform relating to a balanced budget, sound currency, reduction in governmental expenditures, and abandonment of the policy of crop restriction for agriculture," the Colonel declared. He was one of the first to advocate that the Republican party adopt as part of its platform those Democratic planks which President Roosevelt has failed to carry...