Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did the Senate up the House's appropriation of $835,000,000. On top of $500.000,000 which Secretary Wallace had asked for benefit payments and crop loans to farmers who restrict their acreage, the Senate gave him: i) $225,000,000 for parity payments (to recompense farmers for the difference between present prices and the higher prices of "normal" years), and 2) $203,000,000 (instead of $90,000,000 asked) to subsidize the export of crop surpluses...
...benefit of dairymen, 24 States tax oleomargarine. Some are thinking of banning each other's milk, butter, cheese. Meantime, while the per capita consumption of milk stays too low for public health, Southern States whose cottonseed goes into margarine threaten to forbid or restrict imports of dairy products...
...giving Congress sole power to levy tariffs and otherwise regulate commerce between the States, the Founding Fathers thought to insure free trade within the U. S. and prevent in future the economic horrors of the Revolutionary Confederation. But modern States have the express power to restrict liquor imports (granted by the 21st Amendment, on the mistaken assumption that only dry States would use it), to tax liquor for revenue, police their own citizens and commerce for the public good. In self-defense, in response to pressure-groups, and, most of all, in blind efforts to combat Depression, the States have...
...Herr Hitler dispatched to Signor Benito Mussolini a message assuring him that the German people would "stand shoulder to shoulder with the battle-proved Italian nation in defense against all hateful and incomprehensible attempts to restrict the justified will for living of our two peoples...
Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold fortnight ago intimated that the Government was likely to restrict advertising on the ground that it sometimes fostered monopoly (TIME, Nov. 21). Last week he backed down. Obviously embarrassed by the sensation which his comments on advertising caused, Trust Buster Arnold wrote Advertising & Selling that it was all a misunderstanding, that regulation of advertising was the job of industry, not of the Department of Justice...