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...courthouses, behind the flyspecked fronts of general stores, in thousands of voting booths in a belt stretching through 19 States of the South and West and jumping over the Pacific to Hawaii, Election Day dawned last week. The voters were the nation's growers of cotton, rice, and flue-cured tobacco, 2,500,000 strong. They were asked to give a straight Yes or No on the strictest controls possible under the Agricultural Adjustment Act: The imposition of prohibitive taxes on any producer who markets more than a fixed crop quota in 1939. To the question...
...Every water closet shall be provided with a local vent. ... It shall be carried upward or into a heated flue or into the kitchen chimney...
...thirds majority of voting farmers favor it. Last week, 1,189,496 cotton farmers voted for, 97,456 against a quota. Biggest majority was South Carolina's (96%), smallest Oklahoma's (76%). Dark tobacco growers voted for a quota 38,209 to 8,746, flue-cured tobacco growers...
This year's cotton quota has already been set at 26,300,000 acres, to produce a 10,125,000 bale crop (8,621,000 under last year's). Dark tobacco quotas will be 145,000,000 Ibs., flue-cured tobacco 705,000,000. Fines for over-productive farmers, whether they voted for or against quotas, will be two cents a pound for cotton, 50% of the market price for tobacco. Said Administrator H. R. Tolley, "We consider the vote an overwhelming endorsement of the new farm program...
...mass of lying evidence and the judge's prejudice. Convicted, he flees to England. But presently a new French Government orders the Dreyfus case reopened and the prisoner is acquitted. In real life Zola lived on for three years before he was asphyxiated by a leaky flue. In the picture he dies on the eve of Dreyfus' reinstatement in the army. His epitaph, pronounced in the Pantheon by Anatole France (Morris Carnovsky), gives the picture a magnificent last line: "He [Zola] was a moment in the conscience...