Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shelf, through aisle after aisle were stacked the products that Iowa's women had wrought from their gardens, cook stoves and work baskets. Nine hundred prizes were offered for twelve kinds of bread and rolls, 15 kinds of layer cake, 13 kinds of loaf cake, cookies, candy, popcorn balls, potato chips, spiced apples, pickles, jellies, jams, conserves, canned fruit, sun preserved fruits; for the best pillow case, cross-stitched spread, French knot spread, Cluny centerpiece, six-piece doily set, crocheted infants' socks, cutwork, Roman embroidery, boy's suit made from cast-off garments, rompers, Afghan, artificial flowers, pieced quilt, hand...
...That we protest against and declare that we will not be bound by the 'Potato Control Law,' an unconstitutional measure recently enacted by the United States Congress. We shall produce on our own land such potatoes as we may wish to produce and will dispose of them in such manner as we may deem proper...
...actual sponsors of Potato Control were bushy-haired Representative Lindsay Carter Warren from the potato-growing northeastern corner of North Carolina and long-faced Senator Josiah William Bailey of the same State. Conservative Senator Bailey, who has opposed inflation, Government spendthriftiness, Huey Long and Father Coughlin, and who has been as cool as a Senator from a Cotton State could be toward the Bankhead Act for compulsory cotton control, frankly gave his reason for proposing Potato Control: "Farmers have continually been driven from cotton, tobacco and peanut production, and have gone into the production of potatoes. . . . We cannot afford...
...other words, cotton control had put farmers into tobacco, and tobacco control had put them into peanuts, and peanut control had put them into potatoes. Potato Control was adopted as an AAA evolution to protect about 30,000 farmers who make their main living out of potatoes and do not want their crop invaded by other farmers whose land has been rendered idle by the other AAA controls. To give them that protection Mr. Hutson will have to regulate half again as many farmers as raise cotton, twice as many as raise wheat, and he will have to detect...
According to the new law, no one may buy or offer to buy potatoes which are not packed in closed containers approved by the Secretary of Agriculture and bearing proper Government stamps. Penalty: $1,000 fine; for a second offense, a year in jail, an additional $1,000 fine or both. No farmer, under the same penalty, may sell potatoes without such containers and stamps. No farmer can get the necessary official stamps unless he 1) pays a tax of 45¢ a bushel, or 2) receives tax-exemption stamps from the Secretary of Agriculture. No farmer can get tax-exemption...