Word: tobaccomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best AAAlibi was that tobaccomen, who accounted for three of the defeats, needed compulsory quotas least-because as a result of this year's quotas tobacco prices are relatively better than those for any other major crop. Said AAAdministrator Rudolph M. Evans: "They decided the voluntary control program was all that's needed. Maybe they are judging the situation better than we at the Department...
Concretely, the election changed the farm picture only for flue-cured tobacco.* By voting No, tobaccomen rejected Secretary Wallace's offer to fix a rigid quota for each seller, levy a penalty of one half the market price for excess sales. By voting No, they also ruled out loans on whatever portion of their 1939 crop they may keep off the market. Unaffected by the Election was the "voluntary" half of the farm program-acreage restriction which growers of all three crops make in return for soil conservation payments and other cash benefits...
...company. From behind a rough-hewn speaker's table in the warehouse he declared: "The leaders of the AAA are honest, earnest men and not politicians....I would urge your continued co-operation with these men...." Espousing New Deal economics, the man who threw a scare into big tobaccomen two years ago with the 10? package,* continued: "The farming classes have been let down by too much profit-taking by industrialists. It is no wonder that the game has been broken up. There has been too much takeout. The country cannot have prosperity unless the producing class gets enough...