Word: prohibitions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dawn that day an airplane streaked away to Austin, Tex. where a copy of what came to be known as Louisiana's "Drop-a-Crop" act was handed to Governor Ross Shaw Sterling with Governor Long's suggestion that Texas also prohibit 1932 cotton planting. Thus to a monster (250 Ib.) Governor of a monster (265,896 sq. mi.) State was passed a monster (15,685,000 bales) cotton problem...
...lawmakers of Texas turn traitor." boomed the Long voice out of the loudspeakers, "and fail to prohibit cotton on Texas farms, the price of your crop will fall to 2¢ per Ib. next year. How do you vote on the cotton holiday plan...
...agencies in Washington could not do so much for the cotton planter as one big man in Texas. But Governor Ross Shaw Sterling was not inclined to use the full power of his position. It appeared as though he would veto any attempt of the Texas Legislature to prohibit cotton planting next year. Said he: "I wouldn't let a child burn itself with fire if I could prevent it. ... I have not been swept off my feet yet. There is too much hysteria in Texas and in the South." He said he feared the "Drop-a-Crop" idea would...
...State officials, factors, planters, millmen and plain farmers. The conference resolved that there should be no cotton planting in 1932, that the Federal Farm Board should buy up 8,000,000 bales of this year's crop to replace next year's. Under the plan Legislatures would prohibit cotton production. Such a prohibition, however, would not be effective until States producing at least 75% of the country's cotton had acted. Governor Long and Governor Ibra Charles Blackwood of South Carolina left the conference talking about calling their Legislatures into special session at once to enact...
Other Campbell suggestions: 1) require "good milling wheat" for all future contract deliveries; 2) eliminate "on track" deliveries and "bids and offers" * in the Chicago market; 3) prohibit Minneapolis trading in four grades of wheat higher in value than the highest grade recognized by the Department of Agriculture; 4) compel short sellers to deliver the same quality of grain as the farmer delivers; 5) declare a six-month debt moratorium for wheat farmers; 6) let the Farm Board pledge no more wheat sales. Declared Mr. Campbell hopefully: "By use of the present laws and my suggestions the price of wheat...