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...Next to TVA, the most prominent New Deal agency scheduled to face Supreme Court test this term is the National Labor Relations Board. AAA II (sec col. 2) and Wages-&-Hours may also have their turns if test cases can be sped...
...Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 passed into U. S. history one January afternoon in 1936, when Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts began reading the majority Supreme Court decision in U. S. v. Butler et al., receivers of Hoosac Mills Corp. The AAA of 1938 has yet to reach the Supreme Court. But last week two of the men most prominently identified with it set out to argue its case before the tribunal of public opinion. One demanded an outright conviction for failure, the other appealed for a suspended sentence...
...Farmers. South Carolina's Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed'') Smith took a long time to make up his mind whether he was proud or ashamed of the fact that, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, he brought the second AAA to the Senate floor this year. In his recent campaign he sometimes blamed the bill on the New Deal, sometimes claimed credit for it. Last week, with cotton prices tumbling under a bumper August carryover of 13,400,000 bales and no increased AAA relief in sight, Cotton Ed set his weather-vane for good...
...Legislature and State Senator he went to Congress, to the U. S. Senate in 1927. His voting record suggests eccentricity yet shows a pattern: against war, racial injustice, Prohibition, Bonus, tariffs & embargoes, depreciated currency. War debts. He voted against the Wagner Act, the Guffey Coal Act, the Utilities bill, AAA, TVA, NRA, Cotton Control; for SEC, Neutrality, Pump Priming, fathered the Miller-Tydings Act for price control of trademarked goods. In this campaign, his most vulnerable spot is his failure to vote on Social Security...
...Extended its wheat export subsidy plan to flour. Fortnight ago W. Lee O'Daniel, flour salesman and Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas, suggested the idea. Last week AAA announced it expected to dispose of 5,000,000 bbl. abroad...