Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Klansman (untrue). The reason that Oldster McAdoo failed of renomination was-so far as hard-headed politicians could tell - principally one plank in his opponent's platform. Opponent Sheridan Downey, erstwhile No. 2 man in Upton Sinclair's EPIC movement, onetime attorney of Dr. Francis E. ("Plan") Townsend, won the Democratic nomination to the Senate because he made a golden promise...
This promise was called "$30 Every Thursday," a pension plan whereby every idle, retired Californian of 50 or over would receive $30 a week for life in State-issued scrip, upon each $1 of which a tax stamp costing 2? (U. S. money) must be stuck every Thursday, to retire each scrip $1 at $1.04 at the end of a year, the 4? to pay administration expenses (TIME...
...days later, Henry Wallace set out for Ste. Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., supposedly to detail a highly publicized wheat subsidy plan before an international agriculture conference. But the economists heard nothing the London Wheat Conference had not heard six weeks before: 1) to keep its "fair" share of the world agricultural business, the U. S. is prepared to take "aggressive action"; 2) the world would be a whole lot better if every nation had a crop-control program. Export subsidies Secretary Wallace blithely dismissed as a "type of economic warfare," which may be justified "in certain emergencies" under "exceptional...
...Secretary Wallace signed a Federal-State milk marketing agreement which 39,000 dairymen had approved 6-to-1. Thus the world's largest milk market (6,500,000 qt. a day), New York, became the 22nd district to get such a plan. Marketing Specialist Erskine Harmon was appointed Federal administrator to police the New York industry and maintain the established minimum price paid to farmers (base: $2.45 a cwt.). In drafting the New York program, designed to settle the longtime controversy between farmers and milk distributors in New York City's milk-shed, everyone but distributors (Borden, Sheffield...
Unlike Mexico, which expropriates private property, then pleads inability to pay, Costa Rica is obliged by its Constitution to pay first, then expropriate. Last week President Léon Cortés Castro approved a plan to dig up the necessary payment-a Government bond issue mortgaging the firm's $3,000,000 power plant. The sirens which acclaimed future Government control of a U. S. public utility were premature, however. Three million dollars would be a staggering amount for agricultural Costa Rica's 591,000 inhabitants to kick in for such a bond issue at home. Abroad...