Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owns, even though in doing so it may enter into competition with other public or private owners of property." Politics? Last week the Press commented widely on the fact that, though the TVA decision represented the unanimous opinion of one Republican and two Democratic judges, in both the AAA and PWA decisions a lone Democrat dissented from two Republican colleagues. Such finger-pointing caused the judicial New York Times to observe: "It would be foolish to contend that no judge is ever swayed in his judicial work by old party affiliations. Yet it is safe to say that very...
...tried to help you, but the Supreme Court wouldn't let me. If you farmers want AAA and you workers want the Wagner Bill and you miners want the Guffey Bill, you must help enact a constitutional amendment putting the Federal Government's powers beyond the reach of the Supreme Court...
...Last week in Sherman, Tex., Federal District Judge Randolph Bryant granted a temporary injunction against collection of cotton taxes levied under AAA's auxiliary Bankhead Cotton Control Act, declared informally: ''I think the law is clearly and plainly unconstitutional." †Admonished 69-year-old Mrs. Wallace, when photographers approached her son: "Now brush your hair, Sonny, and be a credit to the Government...
While a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals was putting a crimp in old AAA last week (see above), two Virginia farmers and an Idaho philosopher in the Senate were crippling at birth the bigger & better AAA conceived in the AAAmendments. Bee Control. Senator Carter Glass withered one amendment with ridicule. Among numerous commodities to be controlled and prorated, the spunky little Virginian last fortnight discovered queen bees. Bobbing up in the Senate, he rasped from the side of his mouth: "I note here that it is proposed to confer upon the Secretary of Agriculture the right to bring about...
...Senate voted 40-to-38 for price-fixing. But next day, a few wavering minds having apparently been shifted by the Circuit Court decision against AAA, the Senate reversed itself, clipped out the price-fixing amendment...