Agriculture Relief: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-ninth Congress, Second Session, on S.4808, a Bill to Establish a Federal Farm Board ... and S.5088 ... January 18, 19, and 20, 1927 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927 - 70 páginas |
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acreage American cotton amount appointed members August 31 average price bales of cotton basic agricultural commodity BLEDSOE cents a pound cents per pound CHAIRMAN commerce COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE commodity advisory council Congress cooperative associations cooperative marketing associations corn corporation cost of production Cotton Growers crop Curtis bill Curtis-Crisp bill DAVIS delivery domestic market efficient producer equalization fee ERNST & ERNST expenses Farm Bureau Federation farm organizations farmers Federal Farm Board going Government interest land bank districts loans losses McNary bill modity nominating committee operations orderly marketing Orleans Cotton Exchange period price of cotton profit provides purchase reasonable representing revolving fund rice selling Senator CARAWAY Senator HARRISON Senator HEFLIN Senator KENDRICK Senator MAYFIELD Senator RANSDELL Senator SMITH spot price stabilization fund staple cotton storage surplus control surplus production term thereof THOMPSON tion Treasury United wheat
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Página 31 - ... than in the city of Washington, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the chairman of the Commission.
Página 17 - Any person appointed to fill a vacancy in the board occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term.
Página 22 - If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Página 28 - Act of 1923, fix the salaries of such experts, assistants, officers, and employees; and (3) make such expenditures (including expenditures for rent and personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere, for law books, periodicals, and books of reference, and for printing and binding...
Página 28 - No commissioner shall engage in any other business, vocation, or employment...
Página 28 - Two of the members in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of the Board.
Página 16 - Authority, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, DECLARATION OF POLICY SECTION 1 . It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States...
Página 31 - Government, except that all financial transactions of the board shall, subject to the above limitations, be examined by the General Accounting Office at such times and in such manner as the Comptroller General of the United States may by regulation prescribe.
Página 17 - States as in its judgment are necessary. (2) shall have an official seal which shall be judicially noticed.
Página 29 - Council shall have power, by itself or through its officers, (1) to confer directly with the Federal Reserve Board on general business conditions ; (2) to make oral or written representations concerning matters within the jurisdiction of said board; (3) to call for information and to make recommendations in regard to discount rates, rediscount business, note issues, reserve conditions...