Investigation of the Commodity Credit Corporation: Hearings Before a Subcommittee on the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, 36th Congress, 2d Session...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - 6 pages

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Page 89 - President shall — (a) take reasonable precautions to safeguard usual marketings of the United States and to assure that sales under this Act will not unduly disrupt world prices of agricultural commodities; (b) take appropriate steps to assure that private trade channels are used to the maximum extent practicable both with- respect to sales from privately owned stocks and from stocks owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation...
Page 15 - ... in relation to any proceeding, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other matter or thing in which the United States is a party or directly or indirectly interested, before any department, court-martial, bureau, officer, or any civil, military, or naval commission whatever...
Page 326 - The Director may waive, withdraw, or amend at any time, or from time to time, any or all of the provisions of this part.
Page 18 - States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence...
Page 16 - Act to speculate, directly or indirectly, in any agricultural commodity or product thereof to which this act applies, or in contracts relating thereto, or in the stock or membership interests of any association or corporation engaged in handling, processing, or disposing of any such commodity or product.
Page 15 - ... be subject to a fine of not more than $2,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
Page 18 - States or such agency; or (4) is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike...
Page 307 - States against marine risk with a company or companies authorized to do a marine insurance business in any State of the United States.
Page 18 - Congress, to have membership in any political party or organization which advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government in the United States.
Page 103 - The Congress recognizes the vital role of free enterprise in achieving rising levels of production and standards of living essential to the economic progress and defensive strength of the free world.

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