Government Aid to Farm Tenants

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Tenancy Legislation in Next Congress

A Legislative Program designed to check the rapid increase in farm tenancy revealed by the 1935 agricultural census will be laid before Congress by President Roosevelt early in the next session. The President's intention of pressing for tenancy legislation became known late in September when he addressed letters to Senator Bankhead (D., Ala.) and Chairman Jones (D., Tex.) of the House Committee on Agriculture asking them to prepare preliminary plans and to meet with him early in December “to complete recommendations ...

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