Last week the Senate and House reconciled their little differences over the great Farm Bill of 1936, wrapped it up neatly and sent it to the White House for signature. As this surprise package lay on the President's desk, not one citizen in the U. S. knew precisely what sort of farm program would be pulled out of it. As Citizen Roosevelt read the 3,500 words of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, he discovered that the Secretary of Agriculture was authorized to:
1) Pay farmers not more than $500,000,000 a year.
2)...
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