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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ed. Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...
TIME has quite as strict a conscience as Readers Phillips and Hampton. TIME differs from them on the intellectual questions of what constitute 1) obscenity or prudery, 2) bias on Catholicism and Communism. TIME'S own intelligence, like its own conscience, will remain its guide. - ED...
Smart, business-getting TWA looks coldly on the suggestion that its excursions be extended to cover Friday, the airline's busiest day. - ED...
...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 improved...
...complexity such that neither the bill's sponsors nor the Committee's Chairman could explain to their colleagues exactly what the farm bill's 97 pages were all about. High point of futility in the week's debate was reached in an exchange between "Cotton Ed" Smith and Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg. To a Vandenberg inquiry as to how much it would cost the Government to pay farmers the benefits proposed by the bill, and where the money was to come from, Senator Smith replied that "an effort to benefit agriculture ought...