Sugar Equalization Board
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | July 11, 1918 |
| Dissolved | July 14, 1926 |
| Headquarters | Washington D.C. |
| Agency executive |
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| Parent agency | United States Food Administration |
The U.S. Sugar Equalization Board was a United States government agency established on July 11, 1918, during World War I, to stimulate U.S. sugar production by equalizing prices of domestic and imported crops. The board was an agency of the United States Food Administration, with the Food Administrator serving as its chairman. The board was abolished in 1926 by Executive Order 4475.
Background
[edit]The board bought and distributed the 1918–19 crop of Cuban sugar, and stimulated U.S. sugar production by equalizing prices of domestic and imported crops.[1][2][3] The board also regulated coffee imports under authority of the War Trade Board and the U.S. Food Administration.[4][5] In 1919, the board's contract with U.S. sugar refiners expired, and the responsibility for regulating and licensing sugar companies became a responsibility of the U.S. Attorney General.[2][6] The board was a furtherance of the U.S. government's efforts to control the sugar industry during the early 20th century.[7][3]
The board was abolished by President Calvin Coolidge by Executive Order 4475 in July 1926.[2][8]
Members of the Sugar Equalization Board
[edit]Early members of the board included:[9][3][10]
- Herbert Hoover, chairman
- George M. Rolph, president
- Theodore Whitmarsh, U.S. Food Administration
- Robert A. Taft
- Dana F. Ackerly
- F.W. Taussig, Tariff Commission
- George Zabriskie, Sugar Administrator
- Clarence Woolley, member of the War Trade Board
- William A. Glasgow Jr., U.S. Food Administration
References
[edit]- ^ "FIGHTS FOR SUGAR PROFITS.; Equalization Board Answers Suit of Federal Sugar Company". The New York Times. 1919-10-31. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ a b c "Records of the U.S. Sugar Equalization Board, Inc". www.archives.gov. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ a b c Bernhardt, Joshua (1920). Government Control of the Sugar Industry in the United States: An Account of the Work of the United States Food Administration and the United States Sugar Equalization Board, Inc. Macmillan.
- ^ "$219,744 SUGAR SUIT ENDED FOR $165,000; Spreckels Confirms Settlement by Federal Company With U.S. Equalization Board". The New York Times. 1922-05-05. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ "Records of the U.S. Food Administration [USFA]". www.archives.gov. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ Bernhardt, Joshua (1920). A Statistical Survey of the Sugar Industry and Trade of the United States: Statistics of Stocks, Receipts, Meltings, Distribution and Exports of Sugar in the Years 1918 and 1919. M.B. Brown printing and binding Company.
- ^ "Government control of the sugar industry in the United States: an account of the work of the United States Food Administration and the United States Sugar Equalization Board, Inc". digital.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ Andriot, John L. (1971). Guide to U.S. Government Serials & Periodicals. Documents Index.
- ^ Standard Daily Trade Service. Standard Statistics Company. 1918.
- ^ Sugar Shortage: Hearing[s] Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-sixth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 197, Directing the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry to Investigate the Shortage and Prices of Sugar in the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1919.