Word: aaas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average U. S. county there are now about 100 agents of various Government farm agencies (REA, FSCC, SCS, AAA, the Farm Security Administration); farmers' dislike for red tape and regimentation has not decreased; farmers' complaints range from charges that Queen Anne's lace grows on the land set aside from production to the charge that the grain stored in the ever normal granary breeds insects who never were given such a bounty to fatten on before. Since debt is a reality to foreclosure-conscious farmers, fear of the mounting public debt means more than it does...
...even make a dent in the town." His cynicism and love of low comedy were augmented back in Wyoming, where he became the sole Democrat in the Legis lature, and was elected mayor of Laramie by nine votes. Later he taught law at Yale, did a few jobs for AAA and SEC on the side. He also wrote two books - Symbols of Government (1935), Folklore of Caitalism (1937) - which combined a rigorous political iconoclasm with a good deal of intellectual clowning. One of their chief targets was the Sherman Act, which he called a "preaching device." Trusts, said...
...victorious Hitler's economic lap is to form a hemisphere cartel to even up the bargaining power between the Western Hemisphere and Europe, between the Americas and the totalitarian States. The U. S. would have to foot the bill for such a program, possibly by some sort of AAA. Whether South America will be willing to place her economic future in U. S. hands at the forthcoming Havana Conference is uncertain...
...result: 6-to-1. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace let drop some quiet advice to county AAA agents in the farm areas; everyone understood perfectly. But when the votes were in, Tom Dewey had outrun the President about 4-to-3 throughout rural Illinois...
...only do young lawyers from Chelsea and East Cambridge tramp in to bear him, but the whole country knows that an expert, a former head of the SEC, is talking. Last night he tore into the Logan Bill, now in Congress, which would practically emasculate agencies like the AAA, NLRB, and SEC. It is a highly technical point--this question of what the powers of such special agencies should be--but it is fundamental to the whole philosophy of the New Deal; and the Logan Bill should be dynamite in an election year. So what Dean Landis, as a scholarly...