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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relentlessly sidetracking members who tried to introduce unwanted amendments, the House leadership apparently had matters in hand when Wisconsin's Progressive Gerald Boileau managed to introduce an amendment outlawing benefit payments to farmers who, among other things, used converted cotton fields to graze cattle. Dairy farmers rose in strength against cotton farmers and the Boileau amendment was adopted 202-to-188. Then Minnesota's August Andresen moved to send the bill back to committee, and so many infuriated Southerners joined the revolt that for a moment the bill seemed likely to be scrapped. After the motion to recount...
...possesses under last year's makeshift Soil Conservation Act. Both authorize him to draw up annual marketing quotas in advance for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, to obtain observance of them by means of benefit-paying voluntary contracts. Both bills agree in principle that when reserves on hand grow too large and two-thirds of the producers involved consent through a referendum, compulsory marketing control can be invoked and penalty taxes levied on further sales. Beyond that the House and Senate bills have so little in common that it was hard to find anyone...
...talk of persuading China's all but forgotten "Scholar War Lord" Marshal Wu Pei-fu to abandon permanently the Buddhist monastery into which he had long ago retired (TIME, April 16, 1928 et seq.), and which reports had him often leaving. A bird actually in Japan's hand was Mr. Wang Keh-min, much heard of in 1935 when he was Acting Chairman of the Peiping Political Council. At that time the Japanese forced Mr. Wang out and had the Council dissolved, explaining that he was not sufficiently pro-Japanese. This week they seemed to think Wang would...
...whole cities, such as Chinkiang 40 miles east of Nanking, destroying millions of dollars worth of Chinese property. This was announced as a "scorched earth policy" to make conquest as difficult as possible for Japan. It took 48 hours of steady slugging at the walls of Nanking and bitter hand-to-hand fighting in the streets before Japanese announced they had captured it this week. Almost simultaneously a radiogram from fugitive Premier and Generalissimo Chiang declared he had "ordered the evacuation of Nanking...
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might...