Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trusters from AAA, a dismissal the more pointed because its reason was undisguised: a disagreement over policies in which the radicals were ousted...
...first two years of the New Deal were, from an economic point of view, no smashing success. NRA, AAA, $4,000,000,000 a year in emergency expenditures, dollar devaluation, all had been tried but some 5,000,000 families still remained on relief. The Government's financial credit could not stand such a strain indefinitely. Nor could the Administration's political credit. A new economic order might be set up by a five-year or a ten-year plan, but certainly not by an 18-month plan. And the campaign of 1936 is not more than...
...counsel to AAA he was also a thorn in the paw of sturdy George Peek, his boss. Mr. Peek protested to Secretary Wallace. In vain, for Counsel Frank had Felix Frankfurter's approval and the support of Dr. Tugwell. So Mr. Peek, instead of using his legal counselor, hired his own lawyer out of his own pocket. But Thorn Frank was too pointed for his flesh. The time came when Mr. Peek gave Mr. Wallace the choice of accepting his own resignation or Frank's. With the advice of Dr. Tugwell and the consent of the President...
...Peek's place, Chester C. Davis took charge of AAA. "Chet" Davis is not a man of Mr. Peek's sort, not a man of Mr. Frank's. Economically he stood somewhat closer to Jerome Frank, but he was a middle-of-the-roader in economics and in disposition. In AAA's legal department Frank and his satellites, including Francis Shea, Lee Pressman, Victor Rotnem, flashed their rapiers, determined to slice the profits off processors and middlemen and present them to the farmers. In AAA's Information Division, Consumers' Counsel Frederick C. Howe...
...murky evening last week a mimeographed sheet announced a reorganization of AAA. Mr. Frank, who had shocked so many Tories, was shocked. He and his friends were fired without warning. Frederick Howe was demoted. The Brain Trust was so completely taken by surprise that it had no rebuttal. And Dr. Tugwell, alas, was in Florida. Only next day did the full significance of the event dawn upon Washington...