Word: haugen
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...Farmer thinks about it is hard to tell, because he raises such a variety of crops with such various success that his attitude toward national farm relief legislation varies greatly and his many spokesmen often disagree. But the new McNary Bill, not to be confused with the oldtime McNary-Haugen Bill of which this was a 1928 model not yet hyphenated, applied to all farm products except meats, vegetables and fruits. In general, Honest John Farmer could be said to favor it. Hence the politics in Congress...
...sold out the U. S. farmer to the English. He depressed wheat prices. He killed the McNary-Haugen bill. Besides he is ineligible for the Presidency. He would spell eight years of misery...
Farm Relief. Even farther postponed, but far more controversial than the Navy program, is the latest reincarnation of the famed, aged McNary-Haugen bill. Senator McNary last fortnight explained, and last week the Committee on Agriculture reported favorably, a draft modified to meet nine of President Coolidge's last objections. The new bill calls for a $250,000,000 revolving fund to be loaned by the Government to marketing associations to aid in selling surplus crops in an "orderly" way. Also, it would establish a Federal Farm Board to administer this fund and it removes all restrictions from...
Finally, there is Hoover, the implacable enemy of the farmer. And of this Hoover we continue to hear--and shall hear more as the time for the convention nears. The debate turns partly upon Hoover's opposition to the McNary-Haugen bill and partly upon the famous dollar-wheat decision of the Food Administration in war days. Hoover makes no bones of his opposition to the McNary-Haugen bill but his friends insist that he had nothing to do with the dollar-wheat decision, and cite evidence to prove their case. That evidence is now being carried to the tribunal...
...improvement of the farm organizations of which he is the active head. He has arrived, now at a point where he is so convinced that the cards are stacked against the farmer that he has put himself on record as favoring the "equalization fee" in the dread McNary-Haugen bill...