Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress to contract with farmers to submit to government regulation, but that Congress could still appropriate money to be spent under specific conditions to achieve a constitutional end. Therefore, let the Government, without making contracts to regulate future production, pay farmers after performance for conserving the fertility of their soil. Conservation of a natural resource might be construed as in "the general Welfare" although the chief means of conservation might be withdrawing land from cultivation...
...perform a great public service by taking care of many relatives during the depression. In 1929 there were 30,257,000 people on farms in the United States, but by 1935 this had grown to 32,779,000, an increase of two and a half million people. Finally, the soil which is the source of our food supply has to be conserved...
...think that we should be particularly interested in helping the poor farmer more than the rich ones. I believe that we should be interested primarily in the farmer who tills the soil and not in the absentee landlord. I believe that the A.A.A. so far has done a great deal of good and not done a great deal of harm. However, in the long run, I feel that crop restriction is unjust to the consumer and will eventually destroy commercialized farming itself...
...both before hostilities began and since. Haile Selassie has kept Europe's diplomats well supplied with offers to make peace by selling or bartering parts of the empire, emitting at the same time declarations to the world press that he will part with "not an inch" of Ethiopian soil. If these Imperial activities resemble a Semitic tradesman's strident, righteous protestations and simultaneous readiness to compromise, they are not the Man of the Year's fault but aspects of his God-given character...
...Stratton Porter, with Rose O'Neill and Fannie Hurst thrown in, A Stone Came Rolling is a strange mixture of unabashed sentiment and social indignation. When Britt moved down into North Carolina's Piedmont to farm, his easygoing charm, church-going habits and knowledgeable affection for the soil would soon have admitted him to honorable citizenship. But his wife Ishma's goings-on set tongues wagging, heads shaking. A beauty, intelligent and subversive, she set the neighboring town of Dunmow on its ear, was sure to be found at the storm-centre of all industrial disturbances. Mill...