DS--1-., Issues 9-21U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 |
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acreage allotments acres Administration Agricultural Adjustment Administration AGRICULTURAL PROGRAM Amarillo American amount areas average bales better cents co-ops committees consumers cooperative cost cotton crop insurance Department of Agriculture discussion groups domestic economic effect especially Ever-Normal Granary exports Extension Service Farm Credit Administration farm families Farm Finance farm income farm products farm program Farm Security Farm Security Administration favor foreign market Government important improve increased industrial interest keep land use planning lease livestock living loans lower prices Lynchburg marketing quotas means ment Miles City million bushels munity needs North Platte Oklahoma City organization owners ownership percent problem raise Reciprocal Trade Agreements referendum Roseburg rural communities sell Soil Conservation stamp plan supply surplus tariff taxes tenants things tion U. S. Department United States Department vote Walla Walla Walla Washington weather wheat farmer world price York City
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Page 11 - The act is in essence and on its face a complete regulation of boards^of trade, with a penalty of 20 cents a bushel on all 'futures' to coerce boards of trade and their members into compliance.
Page 10 - It is often applied, as a regulation of commerce. It is often applied, as a virtual prohibition upon the importation of particular articles, for the encouragement and protection of domestic products, and industry ; for the support of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures ; for retaliation upon foreign monopolies and injurious restrictions ; for mere purposes of state policy, and domestic economy ; sometimes to banish a noxious article of consumption ; sometimes, as a bounty upon an infant manufacture,...
Page 10 - Report of the New York State Commission for the Revision of the Tax Laws, by Paul R.
Page 10 - The absolute power to lay taxes includes the power in every form in which it may be used, and for every purpose to which the legislature may choose to apply it. This results from the very nature of such an unrestricted power. A fortiori it might be applied by Congress to purposes for which nations have been accustomed to apply it. Now, nothing is more clear, from the history of commercial nations, than the fact that the taxing power is often, very often, applied for other purposes than revenue. It...
Page 3 - But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
Page 11 - Court said: It is impossible to escape the conviction, from a full reading of this law, that it was enacted for the purpose of regulating the conduct of business of Boards of Trade through supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture and the use of an administrative tribunal.