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...Adopted a conference report on a joint resolution appropriating $40,000,000 to pay the Farm Board for 45,000,000 bu. of wheat, 500,000 bales of cotton turned over to the Red Cross for relief; sent it to the President...
...board be increased to eight with no more than four directors belonging to one party. ¶Signed by the President: a $175,000,000 appropriation for the Agriculture Department; a $1,056,000,000 appropriation for the Treasury and Post Office Departments; a bill turning 45,000,000 bu. of wheat, 500,000 bales of cotton from the Farm Board to the Red Cross for needy relief; a bill providing a 20-year penalty for sending kidnapping or ransom letters through the mails...
...Adopted a conference report on a bill to permit the Red Cross to distribute 45,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat and 500,000 bales of Farm Board cotton to the needy...
...Passed a House bill authorizing the Red Cross to distribute free to the needy 50.000.000 bu. of the Farm Board's surplus wheat; sent it to conference...
Agriculture, The Farm Board was flayed for "stabilizing wheat from $1.25 per bu. down to 30¢, corn from 75¢ per bu. down to 20¢, cotton from 15¢ per Ib. down to 5¢, wool from 20¢ per Ib. down to 7¢" at a public cost of $500,000,000. But Senator Barkley's only concrete suggestions were to lend the farmers more money like "other forms of industry and finance" and to "take the Government out of the dubious adventure of speculation in farm products...