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...House during consideration of that measure to prompt its "sponsors" in debate. Not until his presence seemed likely to cause a Republican stir did he retire. Besides Cohen, there are others like him: Dr. Jacob Viner (Treasury Department), Norman Meyers (Interior Department), Abe Fortas and Lee Pressman (AAA...
...concrete evidence that Dr. Tugwell meant what he said, his critics point to the start which has been made in regimenting agriculture under AAA, to the strict codes which have been forced on agricultural industries, and to the Tugwell bill to make the Pure Food & Drug Act much more drastic and comprehensive, apply it to advertising as well as labeling. To prove that the present Food & Drug Act is already drastic enough to penalize honest men for mistakes. Dr. Tugwell's opponents unearthed a list of judgments obtained under that act and published by the Department of Agriculture last...
...Although the price rallied later in the day, it once touched 72⅞?−down more than 14? from the high of the previous week. When President Roosevelt took office nearly 14 months ago, wheat was selling in Chicago at 47? per bu. Since then the AAA has distributed $65,000,000 in subsidies to wheat growers to reduce production. Yet when last week's selling wave was over, wheat stood at 76? per bu. and the present crop carryover promised a surplus of 265,000,000 bu. on July...
...school building expert in the Office of Education. The other two women conform, like Miss Barrows, to a familiar Washington type: bright, obscure incumbents of small Government jobs, unmarried, unbeauteous as a rule, and with fairly elemental ideas about politics. Mary Taylor is editor of the AAA's Consumers' Guide. Hildegarde Kneeland has served for ten years as a minor official in the Home Economics Bureau...
...Wirt concluded his testimony with the dubious report that a member of AAA's staff suggested that "our objectives" would be furthered if less help for the hungry were forthcoming, that Dr. Tugwell had planned a $1.000,000 institution to incubate radical views among jobless young college graduates, that the government's subsistence homestead project near Morgantown, W. Va. was "communistic...