Word: crops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate bills were being drawn up, President Roosevelt asked that the appropriations be kept within the $500,000,000 appropriated to administer the Soil Conservation Act. Some Congressional estimates ran as high as $1,500,000,000. Assumption was, however, that Secretary Wallace could use his discretionary power over crop loans to keep the cost near the President's figure. Like the Soil Conservation Act, the Act provided for no compensating revenues such as the processing taxes collected under the first AAA, will have to be paid for out of the Government's regular revenues...
Constitutionality. In holding the first AAA unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ruled that the Government was using the Federal taxing power unconstitutionally in employing it to impose a system of crop regulation lying outside the powers delegated to Congress. The constitutionality of the second AAA, which has the same general objectives, rests not on the taxing power but specifically on the powers of Congress to: 1) regulate interstate commerce, and 2) promote the general welfare. As a further safeguard against the Court, the drafters of the AAA of 1938 inserted a provision separating the Act into sections dealing with each crop...
...goddess, Pacifica (see cut), which San Francisco's veteran Ralph Stackpole modeled to be the exposition's 70 ft. cynosure. But Mr. Connick remarked of Abundance, a nude male figure by David Slivka, that it looked more like a failure of the fig leaf crop; of Occident & Orient, two female nudes by Jacques Schnier, that they would be barred from burlesque; of South American Woman Grinding Corn by Cecilia Graham, that it should be called Woman Bet-Loser Shoving a Peanut With Her Nose...
...avowed purpose of the new crop control bill is to (1 guarantee an abundance of food, 2 bring the farmers completely under the domination of the Department of Agriculture, 3 keep farm prices up and stable, 4 guarantee the farmer his cost of production, 5 win votes for the Democratic party in the 1938 Congressional election...
...telegram to President Roosevelt former Republican Presidential Candidate Alfred M. Landon promised support on (1 the crop control plan, 2 matters of international policy, 3 the antimonopoly drive, 4 the war against crime, 5 dealing with the business recession...