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...April 1931, Herbert Hoover was just back from his first and last visit as President to the Virgin Islands ("a poorhouse" to him). Same month, eight young Negroes were sentenced to death at Scottsboro. Ala. for raping two white female hoboes in a Southern Ry. freight gondola (TIME, June...
...more than a week, too, since the New Deal had begun to grope for an AAA substitute and Mr. Hoover thought the time was opportune to steal a march on the New Deal by getting in a bit of constructive criticism. Said he: "Instead of trying to find a balance to Agriculture by paying the farmer to curtail a crop, we should endeavor to expand another crop which can be marketed or which would improve the fertility of the soil. We import vast quantities of vegetable oils, sugar and other commodities. . . . We need to replenish our soils with legumes...
Little did Herbert Hoover imagine that within 24 hours Franklin Roosevelt would be enthusiastically repeating almost his very words...
...evening last week in the Coliseum at Lincoln, Neb., 10,000 applauding citizens looked up into the chubby face of the country's only living ex-President, who in turn beamed down upon them. Herbert Hoover was about to assault the New Deal on its once strongest political front. With his tongue in his apple cheek he called attention to the dreadful price-slumps which had not followed the demise of AAA: "President Roosevelt on May 30, 1935, prophesied that 'if we abandon crop control, wheat will immediately drop to 36? a bushel and cotton...
...before Herbert Hoover spoke at Lincoln two newshawks strolled in to see Chester Davis, Administrator of the late AAA. One was James Russell Wiggins, correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the other Felix Belair Jr. of the New York Times. Mr. Davis poured his woes into their ears...