Farmworkers in Rural America, 1971-1972: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First and Second Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 |
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acreage acres agricultural almonds Angeles assessments Bank of America boycott buyer CALIF California campesinos capital commodity Company contract corporate farm costs crops DEAVER Divizich economic efficient family farm farm base unit farm workers farmworkers Federal food stamp program Fresno Fresno County funds going growers harvest hearings housing income increase individual industry interest investment irrigation IRWIN J. G. Boswell Kern County Kings County land legislation limited partnership marketing orders ment migrant million MOLSBERGEN National operation orchard organization owner parcels Partner payments percent planning planted Porter Ranch problems production profit programs purchase Reclamation regional San Joaquin Valley sell Senator STEVENSON Senator TAFT small farmer STAMENSON Stanislaus County statement subcommittee subsidies supply syndicate table grapes TALAMANTE taxpayers Tejon Ranch Tenneco tion UFWOC union urban welfare Williamson Act
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Page 1358 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Page 1356 - The Legislature shall protect by law, from forced sale, a certain portion of the homestead and other property of all heads of families.
Page 1358 - To annul this privilege and, instead of an aristocracy of wealth of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which Nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.
Page 1356 - Lands belonging to this State, which are suitable for cultivation, shall be granted only to actual settlers, and in quantities not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres to each settler, under such conditions as shall be prescribed by law.
Page 1197 - Union and the Economic Report, to consider all information relating to estimated revenues, including revenue estimates of the Department of the Treasury and the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, to consider essential programs, and to consider changing economic conditions; and (D) to report to the Appropriations Committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate its findings with respect to budget estimates and revisions in appropriations required to hold expenditures to the minimum...
Page 1411 - I hereby certify, that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the board of directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, at its meeting held May 8, 1962.
Page 1250 - In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this Certificate first above written. NOTARY PUBLIC IN AND FOR SAID COUNTY AND STATE OF CALIFORNIA Comment: The compromise and release agreement must be duly executed.
Page 1358 - I wish to save the very wealthy men of this country and their advocates and upholders from the ruin that they would bring upon themselves if they were permitted to have their way. It is because I am against revolution; it is because I am against the doctrines of the Extremists, of the Socialists; it is because I wish to see this country of ours continued as a genuine democracy; it is because I distrust violence and disbelieve in it; it is because I wish to secure this country against ever seeing...
Page 1549 - ... (d) utilize more effectively our agricultural productive capacity to improve the diets of the Nation's needy persons; "(e) recognize the Importance of the family farm as an efficient unit of production and as an economic base for towns and cities in rural areas and encourage, promote, and strengthen this form of farm enterprise...
Page 1356 - The holding of large tracts of land, uncultivated and unimproved, by individuals or corporations, is against the public interest, and should be discouraged by all means not inconsistent with the rights of private property.