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Bill. Thus propelled from the 75th Congress was the third major Farm Bill of the Roosevelt Administration, aimed at regulating the production and prices of the U. S. four major crops-wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco-also rice. Three major types of legislation provided models: the voluntary crop control insured by the first AAA through loans and benefit payments; the compulsory control enforced by penalties for overproduction introduced in the Bankhead Cotton Act and .the Tobacco Act; the voluntary reduction of soil-depleting acreage to encourage which the Government paid farmers $500,000,000 a year under the Soil Conservation...
...below "parity"-the purchasing power relative to other commodities which wheat, corn, rice and cotton enjoyed between 1909-14 and tobacco between 1919-29 (unless Secretary Wallace thinks other base periods would be more just); and 3) to invoke compulsory marketing quotas, subject to rejection by one third of the growers involved in a referendum and enforced by penalty taxes, whenever national supplies of any crop exceed specified levels...
...University of Chicago (TIME, Jan. 17). He startled the cynics still further by giving the income from another million to Stephens College (Columbia, Mo.) for consumer education. Conservatives and radicals began to rub their eyes incredulously when they learned three weeks ago what Harold Sloan had done with the third outlay of good capitalist profits...
...third allotment was $9,100 to the Lincoln School, a laboratory for the progressive theories of Columbia University's Teachers College. Purpose of the gift was to finance educational trips for Lincoln students. Fortnight ago the delighted school, which likes nothing better than to bring its students face to face with Life, loaded its entire senior (high school) class of 47 boys and girls on a train and shipped them south, with Principal G. Derwood Baker and six teachers, to study Government planning and Government ownership...
...Third Period 6 Queens Williamson 2.45.7. Queens Williamson (Munro) 15.00.8. Queens Munre 16.30. Penalties Miller...