Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everyone cannot raise hogs, cotton, corn or wheat." Many a socialite Philadelphia matron at her breakfast table goggled as she read these words addressed to her. Then, reading on, she found she was being invited by Mrs. Walter M. Newkirk to join the "Potato Protest Planters...
Raymond Meade tried to get her to drink some liquor, Edith went on, but all she took was some potato chips and a glass of ginger ale. She told him it was getting late and she had better be starting for home because she was going blackberrying next morning. When she got home around midnight her little sister, Mary Catherine, warned her: "Your bed covers is in Pappy's room but don't go in there. He's drunk and he's going to run Ma out of the house tomorrow." But Edith went in anyhow...
...Federal crime because the object stolen had been in possession of a Federal licensee, he vigorously denied. Thereupon Fred Hastings, Jed Earner and Bale No. 407784 were forgotten. For the question of the Federal Government's licensing powers-on which rest AAA's marketing agreements, the Potato Control Act and many another New Deal project-had been raised. The debate was taken out of the hands of Mr. Beck and his opponent, Assistant Attorney General Joseph B. Keenan, for the Justices began a rigorous catechism. On Mr. Beck descended ''Liberal'' Justice Brandeis. "Neither...
...Potatoes. Having made a start on his new corn plan, Secretary Wallace started something still newer, his potato plan. Under the terms of the Potato Control Act, he announced the first national potato production quota, similar to cotton production quotas under the Bankhead Act. U. S. commercial growers may not, he decreed, raise more than 226,600,000 bu. of potatoes in 1936. Counting raisers of less than five bushels and growers for home consumption only, who are exempt by law, he guessed the total crop under this quota would be about 350,000000 bu. compared...
...present no individual quotas can be allotted to potato farmers, because the money for enforcing such allotments was not forthcoming from the last session of Congress. The next session of Congress can easily provide the funds, but it may not be necessary. Secretary Wallace, having cold feet about attempting to regiment some 3,000,000 potato raisers, decided, on his own initiative, to take a straw vote among them next January on the question of whether they want obligatory potato control. If a large majority want it, Congress will be asked to appropriate the money. If the majority is small...