Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Wallace and Administrator Davis received a hundred newshawks. For an hour the two were cross-examined. They spoke with circumspection but they denied nothing. The Brain Trusters of AAA had been ousted because Messrs. Davis and Wallace had had enough of them. The action had been discussed for two months...
...broke off his recuperation. Up from the South at break of day he came by airplane, went in haste to the White House door. But he came too late. The President had already made his stand plain to newshawks: he had no intention of intervening, the shakeup in AAA was an "internal matter...
Although Dr. Tugwell had come too late to save his friends, he was not too late to win renewed expressions of esteem from the Administration. He himself was named to a place on the new ''operating council" of AAA. A liberal friend of his, Dr. Calvin B. Hoover, was appointed Consumers' counsel to AAA-with the understanding that the job would henceforth be different from what it was under Frederick Howe. Administration eyes were cast around to find innocuous jobs to appease Mr. Frank & friends. Yet Dr. Tugwell's nose was out of joint. He turned...
...basic ingredients in the Intrigue were simple: 36,000,000 Ib. of potatoes in storage, worth a mere 35? a bu. compared to their $1.37 ancestors of 1930; 3,000,000 potato farmers, bitter when they think what AAA has done for cotton, for tobacco, even for such a "basic commodity" as peanuts; two railroads eager for potato traffic; a Secretary of State devoted to foreign trade; three great potato regions -Idaho, Maine and the South Atlantic Seaboard-and three great potato statesmen...
...Carter Warren to propose a "Potato Tax Act of 1935." It remained for pious Representative Ralph Owen Brewster (former Governor) of Maine to enounce that "Potatoes are the Forgotten Crop." It remained for William Edgar Borah, most famed member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to take himself to AAA's hearings on potato restriction and portentously declare "Idaho raises a very fine potato. I am not quite familiar with the plan Mr. Warren has offered, but I can say frankly that ... the people of my State want to cooperate and I feel in that mood myself...