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...Always bad" were silver subsidies (90.2%), Guffey Coal Act (75.3%), gold policy (60.6%), taxation policies (67.7%), pump priming (61.7%), NRA (57.4%), AAA (53.6%), Wagner Labor Act (48.2%, a plurality...
Godly, Republican Farmer-Governor Luren D. Dickinson of Michigan refused a $112 AAA check for "not raising something-I don't know what...
Republicans in Washington hissed that WPA relief rolls were taking a suspicious pre-election jump, that AAA, in violation of the Hatch Act, was politicking in the Middle West, that a booklet entitled Millions for Defense, prepared by the Federal Works Agency and paid for by the U. S. Government, was being used by the Democratic Party as campaign material...
...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...