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...year-old Judge Akerman took a second judicial crack at President Roosevelt's recovery program by declaring the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional and thus supplying the long-awaited framework for an appeal to the Supreme Court. Before him was a case in which a group of Florida citrus fruit growers were suing to enjoin Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's State control committee from enforcing proration regulations. "In the light of the Constitution, which I read once each week," said Judge Akerman, "the [AAA] act is so full of holes you could drive eight...
...Grew in Japan. Fred Morris Dearing in Peru. Both are able career diplomats who presumably will be continued at their present posts. Also last week President Roosevelt appointed the following U. S. Ministers: Bert Fish of Florida to Egypt. Lawyer, judge, spry campaign cash collector, Minister Fish owns large citrus groves around De Land. James Marion Baker of South Carolina to Siam. Frederick Augustine Sterling of Texas to Bulgaria. Career Diplomat Sterling has served as Minister to the Irish Free State since 1927. At Dublin he is expected to be succeeded by William Walter McDowell, chairman of the Montana Democratic...
...Transportation" on page 14 of the July 17 issue of your excellent periodical. The Brogdex System is not new, as it has been in use on oranges, lemons and grapefruit in packing houses in California, Florida and Texas for a great many years-more than 65 million boxes of citrus fruit having been Brogdexed during that period, a large percentage of which was shipped by rail without any refrigeration whatsoever. Lemons, as well as oranges, were included in the shipment referred to in the article, and in addition to that, Brogdex is applicable to apples and pears-large quantities...
Scion of the wealthy copper mining family which founded Douglas, Ariz. "Lew" Douglas was graduated from Amherst in 1916, studied metallurgy at M. I. T. With the gist Division he went overseas, a lieutenant of field artillery cited by General Pershing for bravery. Home and married, he took to citrus ranching, first tasted public life in the Arizona Legislature, got himself elected to Congress as his State's lone Representative in 1926. This week he rounded out his third term. A lean, wiry youngster with a quick grin and a ready tongue, Representative Douglas shot up to a commanding...
...vortex. Lesser villages were torn from the hillsides. In all, 217 Puerto Ricans were killed, 2,219 injured, 75,000 left homeless. Next day Governor Beverley flew over the devastated areas, reported that the entire banana crop was destroyed, that coffee and tobacco had suffered a 50% loss, citrus fruits nearly...