The U.S. Coast Guard is created, under the Treasury Department. The Government announces that 190 persons have died as a direct result of enforcing the Prohibition law. On April 22, President Hoover asserts that lawlessness is now the chief national concern. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated . Not to worry - subsequent congressional acts quickly over corrected any reforms in subsidizing of farmers that this bill was supposed to provide.
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