Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate there was one question which, if put to any of the nine black-robed Justices on the bench, would have resulted in a summary contempt of court citation. The question: Will the Supreme Court follow the election returns? Forthcoming decisions from this august tribunal on NRA, on AAA, on gold contracts, on railway pensions, on collective bargaining, on farm mortgage moratoriums, on many another headline issue will supply an answer that no amount of charming insistence from the White House, no thumping majority votes in Congress can override...
...terms even mildly resembling a Party victory. He had carried Michigan and towed many of that State's Republican Representatives to victory with him. His record was not a record of outright opposition to the New Deal but of compromise with it. He had voted against NRA and AAA, but for dollar devaluation, for the Securities Exchange Act, for the Federal Housing...
...voted against: Democratic Tariff bills (1932, 1934), Wartime Income Tax rates (1932), 2.75% Beer (1932), 3.2% Beer (1933), Sales Tax (1932), Bonus (1932), Repeal (1932), 30-Hour Week (1933), Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1933), Roosevelt Gold Bills (1933, 1934), NIRA (1933), AAA (1933), St. Lawrence Waterway (1934), Cotton Control (1934), Stock Exchange Control (1934), Silver Amendment (1954), Confirming Dr. Tugwell...
...their opponents' unlimited wealth. To most Republican stumpsters the Democratic campaign chest this year is the U. S. Treasury. The New Deal has promised and paid over $2,000,000,000 in relief to some 4,000,000 families. It is distributing hundreds of millions to farmers under AAA, billions under PWA contracts. It has put 100,000 new political officeholders on the Federal payroll. Lest these benefactions be forgotten the Democratic National Committee has compiled a list of the New Deal's cash donations to every state, to election districts. Said oldtime Democrat James A. Reed...
...spectacle of an officer making the laws which it is his duty to enforce. Many of the significant laws affecting the industry of the country have never seen the floor of a legislative assembly, but have been enacted by political appointees responsible only to the executive. In the AAA Congress supinely turned over to officers appointed by the president the right to impose processing taxes on the basic agricultural products...