Word: crops
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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...
...Senate. What ended the filibuster about anti-lynching-which had served its purpose of keeping the Wagner Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill from reaching a vote -was the Pope-McGill Farm Bill, giving the Secretary of Agriculture power to set up crop quotas for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, establish "ever-normal granaries by buying surpluses in fat years." Unfortunately for its proponents, when the Farm Bill which Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith's Agriculture Committee had been wrestling with for a week finally reached the floor, the tone of that body's proceedings was not greatly...
Most obvious defect of the bill was that it made no provision for raising the money for the payments it authorized to farmers who observed crop restrictions, despite the fact that the President last week reiterated his insistence that provisions for raising any necessary funds above the $500,000,000 now allotted for crop control be included in the bill. Another weakness of the bill was that the House Agriculture Committee was known to be drafting a bill with which it promised to be exceedingly difficult to combine the Senate's measure in conference after passing it. Third...
...down to four items when he omitted modernized anti-trust legislation in his opening message, the President's program called for legislation on: 1) crop control, 2) wages & hours, 3) reorganization of the executive branch of the Government, 4) Regional Planning. Last week this program, with one exception, remained approximately where it was before the Session convened. The exception was Item...
...payments. Meanwhile last week, the House Agriculture Committee under Marvin Jones was working on a Farm Bill of its own. This too was expected to omit the disagreeable and controversial question of raising money, leaving it to the Ways & Means Committee to work out a scheme of paying for crop control, presumably in the regular session...