Word: fees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ostensibly set out to investigate a "wholesale buying" corporation called the Decimo Club, Inc., and had told his State the Decimo Club was perfectly legal after receiving from it covertly a $25,000 fee. Other queer firms that Mr. Reading kept out of the hands of the law paid him $35,000 more...
Last fortnight the U. S. farmer was pronounced embattled by Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska. Other politicians supporting Candidate Lowden for the Presidency chimed in. They said the U. S. farmer was angry because President Coolidge had vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill, which contained a sales tax ("equalization fee") to be levied on consumers to guarantee the U. S. farmer higher prices. Governor McMullen called for a "crusade" of 100,000 farmers, to demonstrate at the G. O. P. Convention in Kansas City. Governor McMullen went to Chicago and there declared that the number of farmers who would actually...
...Minnesota, farmers were reported to be rallying "by thousands." A Minnesota politician explained that the Equalization Fee had "become a symbol...
...hill" in one day last fortnight. His thirteenth (this session) was affixed last week to the McNary-Haugen Farm relief measure (see FARMERS). Senator McNary and Representative Haugen were called to the White House and told in advance that their work was disapproved because of the "equalization fee...
...Fee. S. 3555 proposed to set up a Federal fund from which cooperative associations of farmers could borrow money to help them market their products. That was all right with President Coolidge. S. 3555 proposed a Federal farm board to administer the fund. That was all right with President Coolidge. S. 3555 proposed that when the producers of a given commodity had produced more of that commodity than they could market in an "orderly" fashion, or more than they were willing to try to market with the aid of the loan fund only, that an "equalization fee" should be levied...