COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION CHARTER

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTIETH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S. 1322

A BILL TO PROVIDE A FEDERAL CHARTER FOR
THE COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION

74439

JANUARY 19, 20, AND 21; MARCH 15 AND 16, 1948

Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1948

CONTENTS

Statement of—

Blakemore, James, Assistant Director, Corporation Audits Division,

General Accounting Office, Washington, D. C.---

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77

Brasfield, Director, Fiscal Branch, Production and Marketing Ad-

ministration; and Treasurer, Commodity Credit Corporation,

United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C----- 83, 201

Davis, John H., executive secretary, National Council of Farmer

Cooperatives, Washington, D. C.

50

5, 54, 96

Dodd, N. E., Under Secretary of Agriculture, United States Depart-

ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.--

Gilmer, Jesse B., Administrator, Production and Marketing Adminis-

tration, and President, Commodity Credit Corporation, United

States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C...----

Hunter, W. Carroll, Solicitor, United States Department of Agricul-
ture, Washington, D. C...

Sanders, J. T., legislative counsel, the National Grange, Washington,
D. C..

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5

46

Sanford, H. E., chairman, National Grain Trade Council, and vice

president, Continental Grain Co., Portland, Oreg-.

Simpson, Clark, Assistant Director, Corporation Audits Division,
General Accounting Office, Washington, D. C...

117

64

Smith, Russell, legislative secretary, National Farmers Union, Wash-

ington, D. C..

Slaughter, Roger C., counsel for the Boards of Trade of Chicago and

Kansas City, Minneapolis Grain Exchange, and the North American

Export Grain Association, Kansas City, Mo.

146

60

Weitzel, Frank H., Assistant to the Comptroller General, General

Accounting Office, Washington, D. C...

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