Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington betting until the start of last week was 3-to-1 that the President would veto the Sugar Bill which lobbyists spurred through Congress in its closing days. To domestic growers, both cane and beet, the Bill provided continuance of the quota system limiting raw sugar imports, as well as cash benefits to be paid from a ½?-per-lb. processing tax, and the President was reconciled to holding an umbrella over the growers in the form of a domestic price about three times the world price. But he strenuously objected in principle to that part of the bill...
...passage of a quasi-Neutrality Act, extending and amending the temporary acts of 1935 and 1936; an act to allow Supreme Court Justices to retire on full pay; a modified Court Bill, which was the ghost of the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court; a sugar-quota act which the President had promised to veto; and appropriations totaling $9,389,488,983, including $1,500,000,000 for relief. What Congress had not done was another story. Major Congressional Work Undone...
...still flushed and angry. The Vice President walked over to console him by suggesting jovially that if he had served in the House during the Garner Speakership, he might have been better used to such procedure. With the Court issue out of the way at last, and the sugar quota and tax loophole bills the only major items left on the calendar, the end of one of the hottest, hardest summers in Senatorial history was last week finally in sight. Said delighted Leader Barkley: "I think we can safely say now that we will adjourn August 21 at the very...
...their lengthy battle the sugar refining lobbyists ran up against opposition as tough as Washington could provide: the Roosevelt Administration. Secretary of State Hull objected to the 1937 Sugar Bill because: 1) it cut down Good Neighbor Cuba's raw sugar quota by 6% and Cuba's refined sugar quota by one-fifth-something to make other Good Neighbors suspicious of Mr. Hull's advances; 2) the Supreme Court had already cited U. S. refiners for monopoly. Secretary of the Interior Ickes ranted about lobbyists who would discriminate against his islands: "A form of protection not even...
...Department, estimating that the year's bumper crop of 26,000,000 sacks (132.2 Ib. apiece) would leave a 10,000,000-sack surplus to add to the accumulation already on hand, announced that this year it would buy 70% of the crop to burn. Daily burning quota will go up from 60,000 to 100,000 sacks, daily cost to Government and growers...