Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys down at the Grange don't bother much with international politics but they tell me Secretary Wallace has dedicated a song to the AAA's fallow acres...
Against: TVA amendments, holding company "health sentence," Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Moratorium, munitions embargo, Anti-Lynching, Reorganization, the $1,500,000,000 relief fund for 1938, AAA II conference report, Wages-&-Hours...
...Jersey went Secretary of War Woodring. To Council Bluffs, Iowa, having already visited Kansas, Texas, and Illinois, went Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to make another of a series of heartfelt speeches in defense of AAA. To Kansas went Senate Majority Leader Barkley. To Pennsylvania after Mr. Farley went House Majority Leader Rayburn. But of all the stump-speaking Democrats, loudest and longest was the Secretary of the Interior...
...prices, except insofar as it was not drastic enough in the face of huge carry-overs from the bumper crops of 1937. The necessity of some sort of reduction was recognized even by Hoover's Farm Board in the waning days of McNary-Haugenism. So far, the AAA has operated to the direct advantage only of the nation's farmers. Much has been said of the indirect advantages to the nation as whole; recovery was to arrive on the wings of higher farm buying power. Whatever the validity of this argument, high food costs have consistcutly held down the living...
...Senator Bulkley has not fulfilled his youthful Congressional promise. His voting record, which has hopped back & forth over the New Deal fence, can be classified as either independent or puzzling. He has voted against such New Deal measures as gold devaluation, NIRA, the Black 30-Hour-Week Bill, TVA, AAA (both 1935 and 1938), Soil Conservation, the Guffey Coal Act, Wages & Hours. But he stood with the New Deal on both the bills Franklin Roosevelt chose to regard as tests of Roosevelt liberalism, Reorganization and the Supreme Court Bill, which Bulkley defended over a nation-wide radio hookup. For this...