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May 17, 1937

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FARM CONTROL BILL SHAPED BY CHIEFS TO GO TO CONGRESS; Administration Agrees to Program Using Normal Granary and Part of AAA FLEXIBILE TARIFF INCLUDED Principle Is Applied to Agricultural Imports, With President the Judge STABILIZED PRICES AN AIM Plan to Cost $700,000,000 a Year Would Give Them to Farmer and Consumer Would Stabilze Prices Provision for Tax Cotton Guarantee Opposed FARM CONTROL BILL SHAPED BY CHIEFS Production Control Accepted

By Felix Belair Jr.special To the New York Times

compromise on price parity in new bill

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Notable Births

Hazel R. O'Leary

1937Hazel R. O'Leary, American lawyer and politician, 7th United States Secretary of Energy[†]

Hazel Reid O'Leary is an American lawyer, politician, and university administrator who served as the 7th United States secretary of energy from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, O'Leary was the first woman and first African American to hold that post. She also served as the 14th president of Fisk University from 2004 to 2013, a historically black college and her alma mater. O'Leary's tenure at Fisk came amid financial difficulty for the school, during which time she increased enrollment and contentiously used the school's art collection to raise funds.

Historical Events

Spanish Civil War

1937Spanish Civil War: The Largo Caballero government resigns in the wake of the Barcelona May Days, leading Juan Negrín to form a government, without the anarcho-syndicalist CNT, in its stead.[†]

The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic and included socialists, anarchists, communists, and separatists. The opposing Nationalists who established the Spanish State were an alliance of fascist Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and traditionalists supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and led by a military junta among whom General Francisco Franco quickly achieved a preponderant role. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war was variously viewed as class struggle, a religious struggle, or a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, or between fascism and communism. The Nationalists won the war, which ended in early 1939, and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975.