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Though Oldster Hull is proud of having negotiated these tariff treaties, few New Dealers envied him his Minneapolis job, because the reciprocal trade agreements are admittedly unpopular along the Canadian border. NRA, AAA, WPA, PWA, the Wagner Labor Relations Act, the Guffey Coal Act, the Social Security Act have given or promised cash or privileges to some particular group of voters. But trade reciprocity depends on the abolition of privileges, and few of its beneficiaries are aware of their benefits. Steel workers never know what portion of their pay comes from steel that goes into automobiles and machinery sold overseas...
...rapidly becoming a potent force in national as well as industrial affairs. Reporters in the Senate Press Gallery knew it fortnight ago when they saw the baleful glare Miner Lewis cast down on West Virginia's snaggle-toothed Rush Holt as that daring young man filibustered the substitute Guffey Coal Control Bill and possibly his own public career into the discard. Newshawks at the White House knew it when John Lewis stomped grimly into the President's office next day. And correspondents in the press box at the Democratic Convention last week knew it when John Lewis, hospitably...
...under the flexible tariff law to boost the duty on zippers, thereby pleasing two loyal Democratic Senators, Guffey of Pennsylvania and Lonergan of Connecticut, who have in their constituencies the two big U. S. zipper makers...
...Capitol, West Virginia's stripling Senator Rush Dew Holt had led-strangely enough, since it was the United Mine Workers who had helped elect him and John L. Lewis was frowning down from the gallery and cursing him for a traitor- a filibuster against the substitute Guffey Coal Control Bill. Spelled by colleagues eager to speak their pieces in the nation's ear for the last time this year, Senator Holt kept the filibuster going through the afternoon and evening, at one time piping passages from Aesop's Fables in his youthful tenor...
...eight Supreme Court decisions touching the New Deal program, the only two favorable to the Administration were on the (1 Guffey Coal Control Act and the Bankhead Act, 2 Wagner Labor Relations Act and the TVA, 3 AAA and NRA, 4 Gold Clause and the TVA, 5 Public Utility Act and the Housing...