Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first press conference after the AAA decision. President Roosevelt sat back in his chair with chin up, cigaret holder cocked rakishly out of a corner of his mouth, a tight-lipped grin on his face, waiting for unwelcome questions. Every inch of floor space was covered by newshawks waiting with pencils poised. The President's grin widened. There was no news, he announced, except-and he stopped to cast a roguish look over his shoulder at the tousled-headed Democratic National Committee publicity man- except that Charley Michelson needed a haircut...
...week long President Roosevelt was face to face with the embarrassing problem of what to do about the late AAA (see p. 18). Once during the week he came face to face with a far more embarrassing situation: six Justices of the Supreme Court in person. Standing with Mrs. Roosevelt before a wall of potted palms in the Red Room, the President held out his hand and a gleam of special pleasure came into his eye as Mr. Chief Justice Hughes and his Lady appeared at the official White House reception for the Judiciary. The same gleam of personal pleasure...
...Bedeviled by the problem of how the votes of the West were to be won in 1936 without the aid of AAA, President Roosevelt drove out to see the annual military pageant at Fort Myer, Va. This year's subject: "The Winning of the West...
...AAA offices some 6,000 employes, promptly cut off the payroll, sat down at their desks and wondered whether it would be constitutional for them to sharpen their pencils. No one gave them advice. There was peace along the Potomac, the peace that arises on those infrequent occasions when politicians admit that some thing surpasses their understanding. Not a Republican voice rose to chant triumphantly that Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Not a Democratic voice promised that Humpty Dumpty would be put to gether again. "No news on that today," was all that the White House...
...believe, as almost every one does that something should be done for the Farmers", said Mr. Saltonsfall, "but I was not in favor of the methods employed by the AAA. The Supreme court decision has served to clear the sir, I think." The problem of what form the Fram relief might take he considers a highly complicated question, and could offer no constructive suggestion at present...