Word: farm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm tenant program...
...replied Uncle John, "I don't think I will.' These city fellows in Congress never vote to do anything for the farmers. Sol Bloom [Representative from Manhattan] and that whole crowd always vote against the farm bills...
...Farm Billion. Relief is largely city men's matter, farm bills are won by country men. When Senator Bankhead of Alabama explained this to his emotional niece last week, he was courting support from city men in the House for the $383,000,000 increases which the Senate wrote into the 1940 farm bill (TIME, May 22) and which last week were threshed by House-Senate conferees. Besides Actress Bankhead, another lobbyist for Relief who last week journeyed to Washington from Manhattan was Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Having served seven terms in Congress himself, he knew just what...
Forthwith the farm bill emerged from conference shorn of only $13,000,000 of the Senate's whopping additions. With still more padding in prospect, it totaled $1,205,000,000-a record-and preserved its status as the bill that killed Economy in the 76th Congress...
...occupied areas. So they have attempted to set up puppet Chinese governments. Where these governments are effective the Chinese are taxed to death; there is a tax on pigs, a tax on goods-in-stock, a tax on travel, and a, tax on the movement of all commodities. Farm animals have been seized, and the metal parts of tools confiscated. Finally, Japanese have at tempted to force their own currency and their own import prices on Chinese buyers and sellers in North China...