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...Bilbo faction. When "The Man" Bilbo turned up in Washington three years ago and asked Senator Harrison for a job, he was politically down & out. With an old trouper's generosity, Pat Harrison lent Bilbo money to live on, got him a $6,000 job clipping newspapers for AAA. In 1934 Bilbo saw a chance for a comeback, returned to Mississippi to try for the U. S. Senate seat held by Hubert Stephens. Loyal to his junior colleague, Senator Harrison backed Senator Stephens let him have most of the Mississippi patronage available that year. When Bilbo won, Harrison, though...
...Guffey Coal Act is now as completely through as NRA and AAA. Further Federal attempts to regulate industry are seemingly doomed. A dark shadow of doubt is cast on the validity of the National Labor Disputes Act. There may be a serious coal strike this summer...
...Department of Conservation. Last week the Senate passed and sent to the House a bill creating a Department of Conservation. Yet Secretary Ickes was anything but happy. The Senate bill gave him nothing but a new title, failed to give him administration of the Soil Conservation Service (new AAA), the Forest Service, the CCC. Worse still. Secretary Ickes' authority was on the point of being drastically deflated by the new relief bill coming before the Senate this week...
...debunked by reflection on the probable state of Kansas' finances if the Federal budget had been balanced since 1933, thus depriving dust, drought and Depression-stricken Kansas of the $400,000,000 of Federal money which has poured in from such sources as RFC, HOLC and FCA loans, AAA checks and Relief...
...blue haze. "Others declare it is partly due to the invasion of women smoking cigarets." But whatever the cause, said he, the Cigar Progress Board was out to restore the cigar's oldtime prestige. Cigar makers, who will save some $3,800,000 this year through invalidation of AAA processing taxes, will support the following CPB efforts...