Word: nonquota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something. If he did not, the Government was powerless to deal with him. The cotton farmer who tried to defy the old AAA's crop restrictions was always trapped by the old Bankhead Act which stopped him at the gin with a penalty tax on his nonquota cotton. The Soil Conservation Act lacked a Bankhead Law to enforce obedience. Therefore it was definitely news last week when the Senate Agricultural Committee took steps to get immediate consideration of a supplementary farm bill nearly identical with one already passed by the House, a new scheme which may well become...
...looking for relief in other directions. Just before the end of the fourth extra session of the 43rd Texas Legislature, a bill was passed giving the Railroad Commission jurisdiction over refined oil as well as crude. The swaggering individualists of East Texas have learned that heating their nonquota oil placed it in the classification of semi-refined and hence out of the Commission's reach. The new law becomes effective Dec. 25. Hoping that this will ruin Christmas for all Texas hot oil experts, the oil industry last week was talking of pacts between the oil States to supplant...
...came from. This new immigration ruling was communicated privily by Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak to U. S. educational institutions early last month. As a concession to immediate protests, it was modified to permit students admitted prior to last August to work out their tuition and keep. Nonquota students could continue to hold scholarships. From 1,500 to 2,500 foreign students were affected, chiefly in New York and California. Last week arose a great hue & cry, led by Dr. John Henry MacCracken, associate director of the American Council on Education, U. S. Commissioner of Education William John Cooper...