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Congress helpfully sped the bill to passage. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court also proved itself helpful by once again defining the constitutional limits of Federal power and by deciding (6-to-3) that the Bituminous Coal Conservation Act was outside those limits.
Months ago Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes decided that his department deserved a better name and he more authority. Hence a bill appeared in Congress to rename the Department of the Interior the Department of Conservation. Last week the Senate passed and sent to the House a...
As for the future, now that the AAA has come to grief on the Supreme Court rocks, Mr. Wallace declines even to guess where prices may go in case farmer cooperation in the soil conservation substitute for the fallen crop control system is not complete. Since the farm voters bid...
If the effort to induce cooperation in the soil conservation indirect method of crop control fails of substantial support it would seem even possible that a farmer demand for a constitutional amendment approach to the problem might take shape at Philadelphia. It is certainly hardly to be expected at the...
When AAA went by the board last January, President Roosevelt whipped through a befuddled Congress a stopgap measure called the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (TIME, March 9). The prime purpose of that law was to restore the flow of cash benefits from Washington to the nation's...