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...Woman has just handed the Vagabond the morning news: There's NRA talk again; and by the way the new Supreme Court building is magnificent. An Mr. Wallace is making plans for a permanent AAA. There's the Constitution in the headlines again. And, bless my soul, business leaders are afraid and would enter politics themselves...
...case of Jeff Bowers was not the only incident last week which showed that nine conscientious, overworked old men were having the time of their lives. Burdened with an immense responsibility, faced with the necessity of soon rendering decisions on the constitutionality of AAA processing taxes, the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, TVA (all probably to be argued in December) and later on the constitutionality of the Guffey Coal Act (see col. 3) and the Utilities Act, the Justices began the week by whipping off no less than 21 decisions. None of the decisions affected the New Deal but, with...
...that a theft could become a Federal crime because the object stolen had been in possession of a Federal licensee, he vigorously denied. Thereupon Fred Hastings, Jed Earner and Bale No. 407784 were forgotten. For the question of the Federal Government's licensing powers-on which rest AAA's marketing agreements, the Potato Control Act and many another New Deal project-had been raised. The debate was taken out of the hands of Mr. Beck and his opponent, Assistant Attorney General Joseph B. Keenan, for the Justices began a rigorous catechism. On Mr. Beck descended ''Liberal...
...farm population are to be "rehabilitated" with the Government again doing the underwriting. Should the program be successful, the once poverty-stricken farmers will be producing beyond the dreams of their forerunners with individualistic tendencies. This program alone, providing it were successful, would be enough to destroy the AAA lock, stock, and barrel. The conservation program and government services instructing the farmer how to grow more per unit of land are merely other cases in point...
...AAA has tried to compromise with itself and with other government agencies where no compromise is possible. Either the AAA must beat a complete retreat, or we must accept a thorough-going socialistic regime. Either the government must have absolute control of land, people, and industry in order to coordinate all the factors in production, or government must allow individual initiative relatively complete freedom. It is an inescapable choice which lies before us. Yet the present administration does not clearly recognize this fact, apparently thinks it is possible to exist half-slave and half-free...