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...like all the other Republican candidates for the nomination, will perforce make one from what they consider Franklin Roosevelt's mistakes. To date he stands broadly for Economy and the Constitution. He advocates social justice without the New Deal, an agricultural export subsidy for the Farmers instead of AAA, collective bargaining for Labor without the coercion of the Wagner Bill. An old fox runs slowly, lest in his agitation his sweat leave a stronger trail for his pursuers. Somewhat on this principle, it was the pre-War fashion for aspirants to the Presidential nomination to proceed quietly...
...high command seems convinced that while the Eastern masses, receiving a comparatively piddling dole, can be easily won from the New Deal next year, the agricultural West, made happy with big AAA checks, can be captured only by a strong Western farmers' candidate. Mr. Landon is certainly a Westerner. And while his not inconsiderable fortune has been made as an independent oil producer, he owns half interest in a 7,360-acre farm near Chautauqua. Governor Landon has other hallmarks of eligibility. After a series of ups & downs, he seems to have his state...
First Address. Before a station crowd of 15,000 (expected: 100,000) the President managed at one & the same time to parry the recent attacks of Constitutionalists, state a lawyerlike brief in defense of the 600-odd suits now pending against AAA and make a strong bid for 1936 Farm support when he declared: "I like to think that agricultural adjustment is an expression, in concrete form, of the human rights those farmer patriots sought to win when they stood at the bridge at Concord, when they proclaimed the Declaration of Independence and when they perpetuated these ideals...
...AAAmendments, Despot Roosevelt was not despoting. . . . Fortunately, or unfortunately, the President cannot veto part of a bill. He has got to accept or reject the whole thing and they [potato sponsors] reasoned logically that he would rather take the potato than destroy the whole measure asked by the AAA...
...McCarl, was preparing to drop his hot potatoes as fast as he could. Senator Long had filibustered to death the Third Deficiency Bill containing an appropriation for enforcement of potato control (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Secretary Wallace announced without apparent regret that Comptroller McCarl was unwilling to let AAA draw enforcement funds from other sources. "I found," smiled the Secretary, "that funds just didn't seem to be there. That may not sound very logical but that's the way life is. ... There's nothing much to be done if we haven...