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...Half way between a lemon and an orange is a grapefruit; half way between a public work and a relief work is a civil work. Up to now the Federal establishments, only recently scheduled for consolidation, have been increased to include an AAA, an FCA, a PWA, an FERA an NRA, a CCC, a TVA, an HOLC, an RFC*-and now we have a CWA. It looks as though one of the absent-minded professors had played anagrams with the alphabet soup. The soup got cold while he was unconsciously inventing a new game for the nation, a game which...
...Executive Commercial Policy Committee. Purpose: to supervise negotiations of all commercial treaties, such as are now anticipated between the U. S. and Sweden, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Russia. Personnel: Walter J. Cummings (Treasury); Assistant Secretary Dickinson and Dr. Willard Thorp (Commerce); Assistant Secretary Tugwell (Agriculture); General William I. Westervelt (AAA); Oscar B. Ryder (NRA); Commissioners O'Brien and Page (Tariff Commission). Chairman pro tempore is Undersecretary of State Philipps...
...Seats. Not just to praise his NRA but also to explain his colleague George Peek's collateral AAA and to hold the farm vote for next autumn's Congressional elections, came General Johnson. Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota control 107 seats in the House of Representatives, 78 of which are now Democratic. Loss of many of these seats to the Republicans might deeply cut the Democratic house majority of 183, seriously hamper President Roosevelt's program...
...nothing to do with farm credits, or home loan or farm loan or public works. . . . The AAA had to deal not with industry which operates all year, but with agriculture which operates on seasonal crops. It did not have authority in time to do all it intends for this year's crops. . . . Farm revolt may be useful, but it is no part of wisdom to revolt against our friends. . . . What did you ever get from these gentlemen who are now inciting you against the President's program? I'll tell you what you got. . . . You got destitution...
...Iowa's capitol at Des Moines, all five Governors and representatives of four others had chewed stogies while tousle-headed Milo Reno, the rampaging Des Moines insurance man who fomented the Farmers Holiday movement, read off the list of his demands for agriculture. Hating Secretary Wallace and the AAA as a farmer hates a drought, Reno had asked for a farm code which would remove agriculture from Wallace's supervision, put it entirely under the NRA. Each farmer would be licensed to sell only his proportion of the domestic consumption of his product. The Government would decree minimum...