Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sent police and Mobile Guards against 20,000 furious French farmers who gathered at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and sang the Marseillaise in protest against Premier Flandin's decision to unpeg the French internal price of wheat. After the farmers had dispersed grumbling, the Government announced that within three months the price of wheat will be gradually unpegged, and French farmers will be obliged to report the area they intend to sow in wheat to the State which may curb any farmer who seems likely to raise over 100 quintals (367 bushels...
...constituencies or obedient to the results of counting noses; but government by men drawn from the ranks of production representing primarily agriculture and industry, labor and capital, trade and the professions. In the General Assembly sat last week not "the Deputy from Padua" but, in effect, "the Deputy from Wheat," "the Deputy from Mercury, " "the Deputy from Wine...
Though unwilling to deny that Congress might legally set up a pension system applying strictly to workers whose jobs took them back & forth across State lines, Judge Wheat allowed himself to doubt whether any compulsory system could retain the incentives to gratitude and loyalty found in voluntary systems. Mightily offended was his sense of justice at inclusion in the present system of some 143,000 workers who had lost their jobs in the year before it was adopted. "Some of these men," snapped he, "were dismissed for the good of the service. I can see no reasonable relation between giving...
Equally repugnant to Judge Wheat was the Act's provision allowing any worker hired by a railroad to count toward his pension all previous railroad service. Declared he: "To require the plaintiffs to contribute huge sums of money to be devoted to the payment of pensions and annuities based upon services long since completed and fully paid for seems to me to take their property without due process...
...legal reasoning, Judge Wheat was glad to recall that President Roosevelt, when he signed the Retirement Act, had declared: "Decision on this bill has been difficult. . . . [It is] still crudely drawn and requires many changes and amendments at the next session of Congress...