Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the magnificent $17,500,000 coliseum built to house the Department which was Herbert Hoover's monument and his stepping stone to the Presidency, Uncle Dan Roper of Marlboro County, S. C. seemed like a very small potato indeed in a very big box. His training for the...
In drowsy, cupolaed courthouses, behind the flyspecked fronts of general stores, in thousands of voting booths in a belt stretching through 19 States of the South and West and jumping over the Pacific to Hawaii, Election Day dawned last week. The voters were the nation's growers of cotton...
Concretely, the election changed the farm picture only for flue-cured tobacco.* By voting No, tobaccomen rejected Secretary Wallace's offer to fix a rigid quota for each seller, levy a penalty of one half the market price for excess sales. By voting No, they also ruled out loans...
The Farm Problem has been a major political issue for 20 years. For the last six Congress has followed the gyrations of farm income more closely than the Supreme Court is supposed to follow the election returns.
In 1938, the first year under AAA II which was designed to keep five major crops up to "parity prices." only one crop (at average farm prices), tobacco, is selling above parity. Corn, at 41? rice at 58?, cotton at .08?, all stand just above half. Wheat, at 52?, is...