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...appropriations committee tore a $383 million chunk out of the Agriculture Department's budget. Funds for the school-lunch program, crop insurance, the land-use and conservation program were sharply sliced. The appropriation for insurance of farm-tenant mortgages was cut from $15 million to $1,000,000. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson wailed that the cut (32%) would deprive veterans of the money needed to start farming, deprive small farmers of subsistence loans, destroy the price support of perishable farm products...
Campaign. In Fort Worth, a landlord was fined $1,000 for trying to oust a tenant by decorating his apartment door with placards: "Ward for Unwed Mothers," "Venereal Disease Ward for Women...
WASHINGTON, May 1--The House passed a bill tonight continuing rent control but not the way President Truman wanted it done. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, authorizes landlords to rails rent 15 percent in return for a two-year lease if the tenant agrees...
...elect a governor only when no candidate has a majority. Gene Talmadge and Thompson, elected with him as lieutenant governor,. had had majorities in the November election. Thus, said the court, the legislature had had no legal grounds for electing Hummon, and Thompson, the ex-schoolteacher son of a tenant farmer, had every legal right to the governorship...
...Canadiens get their punch from the "punch line" composed of Maurice Richard (TIME, Mar. 3), Toe Blake and Elmer Lach (out for the rest of this season with a fractured skull). Ten years ago Blake was a leading tenant of what Montrealers call le pénitencier (penalty box). But last year, a reformed character, he won the Lady Byng Clean Play Trophy...