Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton problem, finally passed the Bankhead Act compelling cotton farmers to obey AAA by putting a heavy tax on anyone who produced more than his quota. Two months later Congress wrestled again and did the same thing for tobacco growers. Last summer Congress wrestled a third time, handed potato growers a similar gift. Last week Congress had a second thought on all three subjects...
...Congress President Roosevelt sent a message advising repeal of: 1) the Bankhead Act, 2) the Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act, 3) the Potato-Control Act, which Washington has assumed would be found unconstitutional as soon as the Supreme Court got around to them. The President's reason for repeal: They are now useless having been "auxiliary" to the late...
Breakfast: fruit, one egg, two strips of bacon, half a slice of bread, coffee with cream & sugar. Lunch: fruit, vegetable salad, one slice of bread with butter, cake or a half portion of pie, coffee with cream but no sugar. Dinner: meat, two vegetables, one quarter of a potato, coffee with cream & sugar, cake or fruit. Rose walked for an hour and a half every day and once a week Dr. Schuman massaged her in "places where she needed to lose." Warning that the diet varied from day to day and might be harmful to anyone else, Dr. Schuman emphasized...
...every conscientious objector to the AAA program and to its un-American and apparently unconstitutional measures, plant a potato patch," exhorted Clubwoman Newkirk. "Let every such potato patch bear a sign in large letters to proclaim the protest far & wide...
...days after Mrs. Newkirk's letter went out, John B. Hutson, AAA's potato director, announced that the automatic tax-free potato quota would not be 5 bu. (as fixed by law) but 50 bu. (as fixed by executive discretion). Republican ladies could still infringe the law by selling a few bushels of potatoes without applying for a quota but to do a good job of law defiance they would have to tear up considerable shrubbery around their homes and do some sizeable potato landscaping...