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...Gore-McLemore resolution to keep U. S. citizens off belligerent ships, voted against war and, in consequence, failed of reelection in 1920. Returning to the Senate in 1931, this onetime Populist turned hard-headed conservative proceeded to oppose such New Deal innovations as NRA, such New Deal largess as AAA and the $4,800,000,000 Relief bill of 1935. To his constituents' demand that he vote for the Relief bill, he replied: "Much as I value votes, I am not in the market. I cannot consent to buy votes with the people's money...
...farmers on relief projects, made ready to handle another 58,500. The Resettlement Administration declared a one-year moratorium on some 30,000 rural rehabilitation loans, prepared to pour out $18,000,000 for crop loans and feed. With Secretary of Agriculture Wallace vacationing in Colorado, the AAA continued to amend its soil conservation program, permitting farmers to cut for forage soil-depleting crops hitherto condemned to be plowed under...
...North and South Dakota, east ern Montana and Wyoming, it looked as if there would be no crops at all. And the drought was getting steadily worse in Oklahoma, western Arkansas, northern Tennessee, southern Kentucky. The Government, declared the President, was ready to pour out unlimited amounts of WPA, AAA, Resettlement Administration and Surplus Commodities Corporation money to relieve stricken farmers...
...hope that the U. S. would this year get back to exporting a large wheat surplus for the first time since 1931. The Department of Agriculture last week reported the smallest world wheat surplus in nine years. Modifying its crop reduction-soil conservation program in the emergency, AAA announced that farmers in the East Central States who had planted land to unprofitable soil-building crops could sow enough food and feed crops to bring their production up to normal, get their Government bounties just the same...
...farm aid bill differs from the invalidated AAA program in that it (1 double the benefits to farmers, 2 includes only cotton and grain, 3 provides that benefits be pai only to those who sign contracts with the Government, 4 provides benefits on the bas of total yield per acre, 5 will pay benefits on the basis of soil control...