Word: aaas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begun to murmur when the State took away their plain little red schoolhouses, gave them public schools. But they did not move away, like their Amish cousins, who went to Maryland. They muttered louder when draft officials sent their pacifist young men to camps for conscientious objectors. But when AAA sent its agents in and told them how much wheat they could grow on their fertile acres, the Mennonites decided they had stood enough. They held a meeting, agreed to emigrate to the free frontier soil of Paraguay...
...Attorney General. He had barely begun anti-trust proceedings against Aluminum Co. of America when he was appointed to the Court in 1925. Attacked as a corporation lawyer, he turned out to be a solid liberal who was soon writing dissents with Holmes and Brandeis. He dissented when the AAA was declared un constitutional, supported the New Deal on TVA and the Wagner Act. No New Dealer, he believed the Court must take notice of social and economic change...
...bales on the market without once breaking the price below 12?. In the process, he made the Treasury a fat profit in futures, and infuriated Broker Clayton who, for the first time in years, had to watch someone else make the market. Johnston also got $363,002,57 in AAA checks for the acres he abandoned from...
...Robert Joseph Flaherty will be 57 this month but he has not finished his work. In 1939 another master of documentaries, Pare Lorentz, who made The River and The Plow That Broke the Plains for the U. S. Government, cabled Flaherty an invitation to film The Land for AAA. In the past 18 months Producer Flaherty has traveled some 20,000 miles about the U. S., making pictures on soil erosion. The Land will be completed this spring...
Composer, musician, and able master of ceremonies, Professor W. Barton Leach introduced the faculty panel as the AAA, Associated Alleged Adults. They were Dean James Landis, Erwin N. Griswold, Professor Mary H. McGuire, Professor Milton ("poppa") Katz and Judge Calvert Magruder. The ladies represented the wives of the faculty...