Search Details

Word: aaa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Fram relief within the terms of the Constitution should be substituted for the recent AAA, in the opinion of Levertett Saltonstall '14, speaker of the Massachusetts House and candidate for the Republican nomination for governor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Saltonstall Sees Necessity of Some Farm Program Within Constitution to Replace A.A.A. | 1/15/1936 | See Source »

...uncashed check as a bookmark brought Ralph J. Baker, professor of Law, to the brink of disbarment when the Supreme Court cited him for "unbecoming conduct." Mr. Baker's dealings were exposed by the Court in a pause yesterday following the decision returning $200,000,000 in impounded AAA processing taxes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Supreme Court Scores Law Professor for Losing Check | 1/14/1936 | See Source »

...goal in Wooster history. He grew up to be president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chairman of President Roosevelt's Science Advisory Board, a burning advocate of Federal aid to science. In St. Louis last week, as incoming president of the A. A. A. S., he decried the AAA (see p. 12), urged that new industrial uses be found for agricultural products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cosmic Clearance | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

Immediate business reaction to the death of AAA this week was confusion (see p. 12). Food and tobacco stocks went up with the outlawing of processing taxes and prospective refunds of impounded levies. Since the Supreme Court's decision strengthened the case against the Public Utility Act, power stocks also rose sharply. Shares in farm machinery and mail order companies declined. Cotton spurted, then sagged. Wheat did the same. Sugar broke badly. But allowing for innumerable and inevitable readjustments, the average U. S. businessman hailed the AAA decision as even better news than the death of the Blue Eagle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deathly Cheer | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...University of Nebraska and to Columbia, is exceedingly modest and possessed of considerable charm. He writes with a cynical gusto that sometimes startles the Sun's sedate readers, occasionally breaks from earnest interpretation into verse such as this, which was run under a subhead "Ask the AAA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Review of Reviewers | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

Previous | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | Next