Wallace Fights to Preserve Agricultural Adjustment Act
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace braces for a congressional clash over revisions to the Agricultural Adjustment Act. He warns of a winter drive toward production limits or continued control measures, favoring careful changes and the New Deal framework while weighing consumer voices and farmer resistance to Washington directives.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
National Grange
Mr. Wallace
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Senator Bankhead
Alabama
Capitol
Roosevelt
Banking fears under Eccles shift and new legislation loom
The piece notes rising distrust among bankers toward Federal Reserve policy under Governor Eccles, fears of mandatory government bond purchases, and potential broad banking reforms. It cites Senator Carter Glass, other Democrats, and the Pecora-led investigation as influences shaping upcoming legislation and scrutiny of banks amid weather-linked data from the American Nature Association and the U S Weather Bureau.
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Roosevelt
American Bankers Bankers’ Association
M.S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Eccles
Washington
Treasury
Fed- Glass Oral Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Bank
Carter Glass
Virginia
Federal Reserve
House
Senate
Congress
Morgenthau
Senate Committee On
Ferdinand Pecora
Pecora
The
Securities Commission
Senate Committee
American Nature Association
United States Weather Bureau
United States
Rocky Mountains
Far West
Lake Superior
Lake Michigan
Lake Erie
Gulf Coast
Mobile
Ala
Vicksburg
Miss
Washington, D. GC
St. Louis
Chicago
Ottawa
Can
Western Newspaper Union
Christmas Gifts to the Nation From Washington to Barton
The article traces Christmas as a symbolic gift across American history from Washington’s 1776 Delaware crossing and 1783 farewell at Mount Vernon to the Ghent peace talks ending the War of 1812, and honors Clara Barton for her nursing and Red Cross leadership, calling these acts enduring Christmas gifts to the nation.
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George Washington
Fraunces Tavern
New York City
Statehouse
Annapolis
Continental Congress
Continental Army
John C. Fitzpatrick
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Mount Vernon
Benjamin Walker
David Cobb
David Humphreys
Philadelphia
Washington
Custis
Trenton
Mabel Brady Garvin
McConkey
Delaware
Boston
Charleston
Long Island
Fort Washington
Fort Lee
New Jersey
Canada
Newport
New England
Middle States
Lord Cornwallis
England
Thomas Paine
Ball
Cornwallis
Saratoga
Republic
Valley Forge
John Marshall
United States
House of Representatives
Supreme Court of the United States
National Monument Society
Congress
Ghent
Russia
Great Britain
France
South Carolina
Madison
James Bayard
Albert Gallatin
John Quincy Adams
St. Petersburg
Belgium
Jonathan Russell
Henry Clay
Adams
Gallatin
America
Plattsburg
Europe
Newfoundland
Lindsey Carson
Madison County
Kentucky
Daniel Boone
Stanley Vestal
Barton
Oxford
Mass
Father Barton
Anthony” Wayne
Clara Barton
Sanitary Commission
Army of the Potomac
Andersonville
Bureau of Records
Geneva
Red Cross Society
Arthur
Michigan
Ohio
Mississippi
Johnstown
American Red Cross
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New Consumer Congress
Christopher Carson
Kit Carson
Fremont
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