Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Devil, he was ashamed to face his family and his neighbors. To his astonishment they were overwhelmed with pride and admiration-"the onliest real fine things we've ever had"-and the dogs brought him a kind of backwoods fame and prosperity. Bootleggers treated him with respect, the AAA lent him fertilizer for his fields, a dog-loving storekeeper advanced him credit, and the whole countryside conspired to keep his secret when he did a little moonshining to get the family through the winter...
...domestic issues he voted against TVA, AAA, NRA, Securities Exchange Act. He voted for the Social Security Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the NorrIS-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act; but from 1941 he has supported every important bill designed to balance the rights and duties of labor. In 1941, he voted against extending conscription and arming merchant ships, thereafter led the Republican minority in support of all war-winning measures. He voted for Bretton Woods, the United Nations. In 22 years in Congress he has had his name on no important bill...
...national economy he has opposed Government planning and planners. He opposed AAA, the National Resources Planning Board, TVA. He opposed appointment of TVA's David Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. He fought price control, believing that the market should reflect true costs and the real economic level...
...began his Washington career 15 years ago in the legal department of Henry Wallace's AAA. Wallace had to bounce him and some 20 other AAA employees because too many people complained that the group was trying to change the world too fast. Pressman bobbed up again in Harry Hopkins' WPA, then in Rexford Tugwell's Rural Resettlement Administration. In 1936 John Lewis, then playing footie with the leftists in labor, made him counsel of the rebel C.I.O...
From New York, go through the Holland Tunnel and take route 22 to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. From there go south on route 15 to Culpeppar, and then follow route 29 to Charlottesville, the AAA advised...