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By the end of the second day, though, something like a plan began to emerge. A significant paragraph in Justice Roberts' AAA decision had said it was illegal for Congress to contract with farmers to submit to government regulation, but that Congress could still appropriate money to be spent...
By the morning of the fourth day when the farm leaders arrived in Washington, the details of the plan and the legal devices to make it workable had still to be fleshed out, but the skeleton idea had taken form. The farm leaders marched in on Secretary Wallace. Edward O...
"That the Secretary of Agriculture be empowered by the Congress of the United States to provide for the rental and withdrawal from commercial crop production, at equitable rates, of such land as may be necessary to promote the conservation of soil fertility and to bring about a profitable balance of...
Expenditures. "To run all the regular activities of the Government," declared the President, "I will need a total of $5,069,000,000. These regular activities include interest on the public debt, major public works, operations of the Civilian Conservation Corps, and Agricultural Benefit payments, but do not include strictly...
A few short years ago, eastern conservatives chortled with glee at the stupidity of a diddering old doctor who proposed to solve the depression and the ills of democracy by taxing the rich to support the poor in their declining years. They prophesied a speedy end for the Townsend Plan...