Examples of Federal Farm Board in the following topics:
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- Farmers had
a powerful voice in Congress and demanded federal subsidies, most notably the
McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Act.
- According
to the bill, a federal agency would be created to support and protect domestic
farm prices by attempting to maintain price levels that existed before the World
War I.
- By purchasing surpluses and selling them overseas, the federal
government would take losses that would be paid for through fees against farm
producers.
- Jardine to modernize farming.
- Hoover advocated the creation of a Federal Farm Board,
which was dedicated to the restriction of crop production within domestic
demand, behind a tariff wall, and maintained that the farmers’ ailments were
due to defective distribution.
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- Harding's creation of the Budget Bureau was a major economic accomplishment that reformed and streamlined wasteful federal spending.
- In addition to these tax cuts, Coolidge proposed reductions in federal expenditures and retiring some of the federal debt.
- They reduced taxes again by passing the Revenue Acts of 1926 and 1928, all the while continuing to keep spending down so as to reduce the overall federal debt.
- Coolidge initially supported a measure that would have created a federal board to lend money to farm co-operatives in times of surplus but the bill did not pass.
- In his veto message, he expressed the belief that the bill would do nothing to help farmers, benefiting only exporters and expanding the federal bureaucracy.
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- Included among these were the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the Federal Farm Loan Act.
- Congress rejected proposals for a tariff board to scientifically fix rates, but did set up a study commission to monitor them.
- It was also aided through the passage of the Federal Farm Loan Act, (1916), which set up Farm Loan Banks to support farmers.
- The compromise, based on the Aldrich Plan but sponsored by Democratic congressmen Carter Glass and Robert Owen, allowed the private banks to control twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks and placed controlling interest in a central board to be appointed by the president with Senate approval.
- Despite this, Wilson did much to extend the power of the federal government in social and economic affairs, and paved the way for future federal reform programs such as the New Deal.
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- Furthermore, lowering taxes, public work projects, and loosening credit policies by the Federal Reserve aimed to energize the economy.
- Second, the Revenue Act of 1932, which was the largest peacetime tax increase in history, increased taxes across the board.
- Among many initiatives, AAA provided farm subsidies in exchange for curbed agricultural production (farmers would not cultivate all of the land on their farms) and manipulated farm product prices by buying and temporary withholding products from the market .
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA; initiated by Hoover) created government, mostly unskilled jobs.
- The National Labor Relations Act (1933), which established the National Labor Relations Board (1935).
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- Among many initiatives, AAA provided farm
subsidies in exchange for curbed agricultural production (farmers would not
cultivate all of the land on their farms) and manipulated farm product prices
by buying and temporary withholding products from the market.
- Federal Emergency Relief
Administration (FERA; initiated by Hoover) created local and state government mostly unskilled jobs.
- The National Labor Relations Act
(1933; known also as the Wagner Act), which established the National Labor
Relations Board (1935).
- The Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
was the first federal law that included a national minimum wage and the
forty-hour week as the standard work week.
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- Many worked on the assembly lines of factories—producing tanks, trucks, and munitions—or on farms in order to keep up food supplies.
- Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and nearly all labor unions were strong supporters of the war effort.
- Anti-war socialists controlled the IWW, which fought against the war effort and was in turn shut down by legal action by the federal government.
- To keep factories running smoothly, Wilson established the National War Labor Board in 1918, which forced management to negotiate with existing unions.
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- The Wilson administration did not fully plan for the process of
demobilization following the war and even with some advisers attempting to direct
the president's attention to "reconstruction," his tepid support for
a federal commission to oversee the change evaporated after the election of
1918.
- Rather than consenting to the appointment of
commission members to counter Republican gains in the Senate, Wilson favored
the prompt dismantling of wartime boards and regulatory agencies.
- A
wartime bubble in farm prices burst, leaving many farmers bankrupt or deeply in
debt after purchasing new land.
- The federal and state
governments had no toleration for strikes and allowed businesses to sue unions
for any fiscal damages that occurred during a strike.
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- African Americans served in westward expeditions as fur traders, miners, cowboys, Indian fighters, scouts, woodsmen, farm hands, saloon workers, cooks, and outlaws.
- Louis, together with Eastern philanthropists, formed the Colored Relief Board and the Kansas Freedmen's Aid Society to help those stranded in St.
- As a result, many Hispanics became permanent migrant workers, seeking seasonal employment in farming, mining, ranching, and the railroads.
- Workers from China were the first group to be brought to the United States in large numbers; however, the federal government curtailed immigration from China with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
- Many European migrants who worked as agricultural laborers did so with the goal of eventually purchasing their own farm in the United States; however, due to the difficulty farm hands faced in accumulating capital, this goal was often not reached.
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- Oversight
and administration of the draft was entrusted to local boards of civilians that
issued draft calls, which were ordered by numbers drawn in a national lottery,
and determined exemptions.
- Congress
authorized President Wilson to
create between 500,000 and 1 million new jobs in 5,000 new federal agencies.
- Wilson, oversaw most of the wartime labor
programs and included a War Labor Board to adjudicate disputes.
- To
keep factories running smoothly, the president established the National War
Labor Board in 1918, which forced management to negotiate with existing unions.
- From 1914 to 1919, gross farm income increased more
than 230 percent.
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- President Wilson secured passage of the Federal Reserve Act in late 1913.
- President Wilson secured passage of the Federal Reserve Act in late 1913, as an attempt to carve out a middle ground between conservative Republicans, led by Senator Nelson W.
- The compromise, based on the Aldrich Plan but sponsored by Democratic congressmen Carter Glass and Robert Owen, allowed the private banks to control twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks and placed controlling interest in a central board to be appointed by the president with Senate approval.
- Wilson named Paul Warburg and other prominent bankers to direct the Federal Reserve.
- Despite the fact that the Act intended to diminish the influence of the New York banks, the New York branch continued to dominate the Federal Reserve until the New Deal reorganized and strengthened the Federal Reserve in the 1930s.