Marketing Agreements and Orders: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2173, a Bill to Amend the Provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act Relating to Marketing Agreements and Orders, March 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, 1948 |
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Page 96 - To establish and maintain such balance between the production and consumption of agricultural commodities, and such marketing conditions therefor, as will reestablish prices to farmers at a level that will give agricultural commodities a purchasing power with respect to articles that farmers buy, equivalent to the purchasing power of agricultural commodities in the base period.
Page 106 - President is hereby authorized to establish such agencies, to accept and utilize such voluntary and uncompensated services, to appoint, without regard to the provisions of the civil service laws, such officers and employees, and to utilize such Federal officers and employees, and, with the consent of the State, such State and local officers and employees, as he may find necessary, to prescribe their authorities, duties, responsibilities, and tenure, and, without regard to the Classification Act of...
Page 106 - interstate commerce" shall be construed to mean commerce between any State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof ; or between points within the same State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, but through any place outside thereof, or within any Territory or possession, or the District of Columbia.
Page 133 - If there are any questions I shall be glad to answer them; if not, I will yield.
Page 177 - Association express its sympathy in the death of one of its members and extend condolences to his family, and be it further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the minutes of this Association and that a copy be sent to his family.
Page 96 - That the present acute economic emergency being in part the consequence of a severe and increasing disparity between the prices of agricultural and other commodities, which disparity has largely destroyed the purchasing power of farmers for industrial products, has broken down the orderly exchange of commodities, and has seriously impaired the agricultural assets supporting the national credit structure...
Page 105 - An Act to maintain the credit of the United States Government...
Page 106 - ... which the validity of any marketing agreement or marketing order, or any provision of either, is challenged or involved. (f) Such information may be furnished to the duly constituted authorities of any State, pursuant to a written agreement made under...
Page 106 - Columbia shall present satisfactory evidence of any such violation, to cause appropriate proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted in the proper courts of the United States, without delay, for the enforcement of the penalties as in such case herein provided. SEC. 6. That the term "drug...
Page 108 - mediator" means any officer or employee of the Service designated by the Administrator, pursuant to the act, to mediate a bona fide dispute with reference to terms and conditions of the sale of milk or its products between a producer cooperative and purchasers, handlers, processors, or distributors of milk or its products; (k) The term "hearing clerk