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Bill. Thus propelled from the 75th Congress was the third major Farm Bill of the Roosevelt Administration, aimed at regulating the production and prices of the U. S. four major crops-wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco-also rice. Three major types of legislation provided models: the voluntary crop control insured by...
Dreamer. Reno Stitely earned $2.300 a year as chief voucher clerk in the National Park Service of the Interior Department. One day in 1934 he had an inspiration. He created in his own imagination a whole CCC camp in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. The Government had never dreamed...
The Public Lands Committee was shocked and delighted. Senator Key Pittman reflected: "An instance of this kind is so extraordinary . . . very serious matter . . . I can't see how. . . ." The reason the imaginary employes were not discovered sooner, according to Interior Department investigators, was that the Park Service, short of...
Among the activities of the staff, apart from simple curating, were listed chemical research in paints and pigments, conservation, arranging 29 exhibits and borrowing works to supplement the museum's collections, procuring guest lecturers, and publishing the findings of historical research in the field of art.
In New Deal Washington few partnerships have been so enduring as that between Henry Agard Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, and Edward Asbury O'Neal III, president of the Farm Bureau Federation. Homespun Henry Wallace and the tall, grey, calloused Alabama cotton grower were bound together not only by common...