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...therefore going to make an experiment which may be fatal politically. . . . I am going to be compelled to restrict the amounts which I can give...
Thus did the Senate up the House's appropriation of $835,000,000. On top of $500.000,000 which Secretary Wallace had asked for benefit payments and crop loans to farmers who restrict their acreage, the Senate gave him: i) $225,000,000 for parity payments (to recompense farmers for the difference between present prices and the higher prices of "normal" years), and 2) $203,000,000 (instead of $90,000,000 asked) to subsidize the export of crop surpluses...
...Sargent thisyear found his 1,190-page handbook too small to contain his views, decided to restrict his handbook to education and publish a separate 400-page volume of general comment-Human Affairs...
...benefit of dairymen, 24 States tax oleomargarine. Some are thinking of banning each other's milk, butter, cheese. Meantime, while the per capita consumption of milk stays too low for public health, Southern States whose cottonseed goes into margarine threaten to forbid or restrict imports of dairy products...
...giving Congress sole power to levy tariffs and otherwise regulate commerce between the States, the Founding Fathers thought to insure free trade within the U. S. and prevent in future the economic horrors of the Revolutionary Confederation. But modern States have the express power to restrict liquor imports (granted by the 21st Amendment, on the mistaken assumption that only dry States would use it), to tax liquor for revenue, police their own citizens and commerce for the public good. In self-defense, in response to pressure-groups, and, most of all, in blind efforts to combat Depression, the States have...