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Thomas C. Blaisdell Jr., 46, assistant director of the National Resources Planning Board. Pale, slight Tom Blaisdell taught economics at Columbia University and Yenching University-biggest, best-equipped Christian university in China-has worked for the Government on AAA, NRA, TNEC, National Emergency Council, Social Security Board...
...Opposed AAA...
...first Bob Wood was sympathetic with the New Deal. He voted for Roose velt twice, approved AAA, SEC, Social Security, many another reform. But he began to part company with the New Deal. He gagged at the Third Term. He gagged at Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy. When America First gave him something political to work for, he threw himself into it with a will...
...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...