Word: conservationism
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In 1875 a dapper young Negro minstrel-show man named James A. Bland penned these words, wrote a tune to go with them, and launched one of the most perennially popular of U. S. songs. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny was sung so long & loud that 63 years later...
This week he pushed his sorest worry, cotton, in a new direction. In the 1936 Soil Conservation Act, Secretary Wallace was empowered to use his funds to expand foreign markets and remove domestic surpluses of commodities or commodity products. Under this authority, and that latent in the 1939 Farm Appropriation...
Latest of such stories is The Wings of the Morning, a 500-page fantasy by a 28-year-old Englishman who works for a London printing firm, flies a plane, likes good food and wine, fast horses and cars. His first published novel, The Wings of the Morning, tells of...
To Interior the Bureau of Insular Affairs (War) for consolidation with the Division of Territories and Island Possessions; Bureau of Fisheries (Commerce) and Bureau of Biological Survey (Agriculture), to lump conservation agencies.
A Security Agency would take in the now independent Social Security Board, National Youth Administration (now part of WPA), Civilian Conservation Corps (independent), also the old U. S. Employment Service and Office of Education (now in the Departments of Labor and Interior, respectively) and the Public Health Service (from the...