Cotton and Grain Futures Act: Hearings Before ..., 71-3 on S. 3420 ..., S. 4129 ..., S. 5542 ..., February 10 and 11, 1931 |
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... farmer to the consumer at a minimum cost , a cost far less than would be the case if there were no futures market , and at a cost less than in commodities that do not have the advantages of a futures market . As to the Randsell bill ...
... farmer to the consumer at a minimum cost , a cost far less than would be the case if there were no futures market , and at a cost less than in commodities that do not have the advantages of a futures market . As to the Randsell bill ...
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... farmers into farmer - owned and farmer - controlled cooperative associations . The other main purpose is to minimize speculation in farm crops . Senator CARAWAY . Why do you want to minimize it ? Mr. O'NEAL . Senator , if you will ...
... farmers into farmer - owned and farmer - controlled cooperative associations . The other main purpose is to minimize speculation in farm crops . Senator CARAWAY . Why do you want to minimize it ? Mr. O'NEAL . Senator , if you will ...
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... farmer , and the cotton farmer , too- I am a cotton farmer - should have something to say about the rules and regulations through the Secretary of Agriculture . Senator CARAWAY . Do you not think that it is very dangerous to let anybody ...
... farmer , and the cotton farmer , too- I am a cotton farmer - should have something to say about the rules and regulations through the Secretary of Agriculture . Senator CARAWAY . Do you not think that it is very dangerous to let anybody ...
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... farmers going to do against 900 members of the New York and New Orleans Cotton Exchanges ? I believe also that Chicago has the name of dealing , but not much . Senator CARAWAY . They sell more cotton than we grow . Mr. O'NEAL . I did ...
... farmers going to do against 900 members of the New York and New Orleans Cotton Exchanges ? I believe also that Chicago has the name of dealing , but not much . Senator CARAWAY . They sell more cotton than we grow . Mr. O'NEAL . I did ...
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... Farmers have felt for many years that the manipulation of the futures market has operated to their advantage . Early in the first session of the Seventieth Congress , the Illinois Agricultural Association , which is the Farm Bureau ...
... Farmers have felt for many years that the manipulation of the futures market has operated to their advantage . Early in the first session of the Seventieth Congress , the Illinois Agricultural Association , which is the Farm Bureau ...
Common terms and phrases
association authority bales Board of Trade bushels buyer Capper bill cash grain CHAIRMAN Chicago commission committee commodities contract market cotton or grain crop delivered Department of Agriculture DUVEL effect Farm Board farmer Federal future delivery future trading futures contracts futures exchanges futures market gambling going Government grain exchanges grain for future grain futures act Grain Futures Administration grain in interstate hedging interstate commerce Kansas City Board Kansas City market licensed limit manipulate O'NEAL operations person president price of wheat producer proposed public interest purchase or sale purpose RADER rules and regulations Secretary of Agriculture seller Senator CAPPER Senator CARAWAY Senator FRAZIER Senator HEFLIN Senator NORRIS Senator RANSDELL Senator SHIPSTEAD Senator WALCOTT Senator WHEELER short selling thereof thing tion Trade of Kansas trading in grain transactions unlawful VESECKY violation wheat York Cotton Exchange
Popular passages
Page 9 - If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate (the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Page 17 - Act ; but no natural person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing...
Page 16 - The judgment and decree of the court shall be final, except that the same shall be subject to review by the Supreme Court upon certiorari as provided in section two hundred and forty of the Judicial Code.
Page 11 - ... producing its books and papers, but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may testify or produce evidence...
Page 5 - ... the provisions of this Act; such corporations and members thereof, being subject to all the conditions and liabilities herein imposed, and to none others; provided, that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to authorize a company formed under it to...
Page 11 - Any person violating any provision of this section may be tried and punished, either in the district in which the unlawful matter or publication was mailed or to which it was carried by mail for delivery, according to the direction thereon, or in which it was caused to be delivered by mail to the person to whom it was addressed.
Page 16 - The clerk of the court in which such a petition is filed shall immediately cause a copy thereof to be delivered to the Secretary of Agriculture, chairman of said commission, or any member thereof, and the said commission shall forthwith prepare, certify, and file in the court...
Page 5 - ... or grades other than the basis grade specified in the contract shall be tendered in performance of the contract, the parties to such contract may agree, at the time of the tender, as to the price of the grade or grades so tendered, and that if they shall not then agree as to such price, then, and in that event, the buyer of said contract shall have the right to demand the specific fulfillment of such contract by the actual delivery of cotton of the basis grade named therein and at the price specified...
Page 4 - Provide that the cotton dealt with therein or delivered thereunder shall be of or within the grades for which standards are established by the Secretary of Agriculture...
Page 16 - Upon the filing of the transcript the court shall have jurisdiction to affirm, to set aside, or modify the order of the commission, and the findings of the commission as to the facts, if supported by the weight of evidence, shall in like manner be conclusive.