Word: hoosac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 passed into U. S. history one January afternoon in 1936, when Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts began reading the majority Supreme Court decision in U. S. v. Butler et al., receivers of Hoosac Mills Corp. The AAA of 1938 has yet to reach the Supreme Court. But last week two of the men most prominently identified with it set out to argue its case before the tribunal of public opinion. One demanded an outright conviction for failure, the other appealed for a suspended sentence...
Edward C. Moore, St. Augustine, Florida--Hoosac School, Hoosick New York...
Died. William Morgan Butler, 76, one-time (1924-26) Senator from Massachusetts, manager of Calvin Coolidge's 1924 Presidential campaign; of heart disease in Boston. A co-receiver of Hoosac Mills Corp., he brought the suit which led the Supreme Court to declare the AAA's processing tax unconstitutional...
...North Dakota]. This is the type of legislative tyranny which is clearly a violation of due process. . . . We shall give back any money exacted as taxes . . . for the benefit of farmers . . . but we shall have nothing to say if the money is for no one in particular [Hoosac Mills (AAA) case]. And do not ask us to return money exacted from consumers for the benefit of manufacturers in the form of tariff duties...
...natives as the Hoot, Toot and Whistle) which last month let excursionists ride in the locomotive cab, fire the 44-year-old engine, ride on the top of cars for 22 of its 24 miles of track up the Deerfield River valley from the east portal of the Hoosac Tunnel...