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...more than 6000 feet below sea level in their greatest depths on Georges Bank. An uplift sufficient to bring these valleys above present sea level implies Alpine heights for the highlands of New England and New York and a high plateau for the rest of this region. A cliff about 7000 feet high must have extended along the New England coast in those days...
...temporary halt. Speaking of NRA alone-after a rough voyage on an unknown, unchartered and foggy sea, during which it tacked and veered and took many wrong courses (for much of which I was to blame)-the fog suddenly lifted and disclosed a blank wall of a seemingly impassable cliff-the decision in the Schechter case. The problem now is not to pick up its wreckage but to steer a course around that barrier...
...benefit bag, thousands more, also like Cliff Day, were receiving small but welcome salaries as AAA field executives. So enthusiastic rural meetings took place all over the South and West, collections were raised to send delegates to Washington...
...Department to wait for Secretary Wallace, the Great White Father of Agriculture, to come to work. Soon the capital was swarming with cotton planters from Texas, wheat growers from Kansas, North Carolina tobacco men, Iowa corn-hoggers. For with their benefit checks in jeopardy, the farmers had rallied to Cliff Day's convention with a will...
...Cliff Day had gaveled for order; a collection of $600 in nickels and dimes had been taken up in a tin wastepaper basket to pay for the hall; an Alabaman had made it clear that "this trip is of our own planning" and a South Carolinian had pledged "we have come to praise and not to condemn" when the nation's No. 1 Farmer stood up to address "the finest farm meeting I ever attended." Amid a storm of happy hog-calls, that agricultural editor and corn-raising expert, Henry Agard Wallace, began by proposing the "reelection of Theodore...