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...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...
...when he went to Manhattan in 1930 to join the slick big-time firm Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy. And he was still more so when he volunteered his services to the New Deal "for the duration" (his words to Felix Frankfurter) in early 1933. By that fall, as counsel to AAA, he had led the revolt of consumer-minded, non-agrarian New Dealers that ousted George Peek. Less than two years later he was himself ousted in a similar revolt against the more durable Chester Davis. Rex Tugwell, his friend and sponsor, quickly got him placed in RFC. Thence he moved...
...President's retort : As for those $9 billions, the AAA report had been mis taken, had made certain duplications...