Word: stopgaps
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...publishing angel. While Recession interceded and the angel procrastinated, one of the Digest's few substantial sources of revenue was renting to advertisers (at $8 to $15 per thousand names) its mailing lists of 4,000,000 names of present and former subscribers. But that was only a stopgap. On Feb. 24, the working capital not yet in hand, President Havell suspended the 48-year-old Literary Digest for two weeks...
...submitted only a rough sketch. On both sides of a portrait there was to be an elaborate arrangement of sundials, hourglasses, other time-symbols. To suggest the general idea, the artist had sketched in some "spinach." Uncertain about the symbols, the editors decided to use the spinach as a stopgap. Except for minor alterations and the addition of a red border in 1927, TIME'S cover has remained unchanged...
When AAA went by the board last January, President Roosevelt whipped through a befuddled Congress a stopgap measure called the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (TIME, March 9). The prime purpose of that law was to restore the flow of cash benefits from Washington to the nation's farmers which the Supreme Court decision had rudely interrupted. Yet the Soil Conservation Act compelled no farmer to do anything about limiting his production. If he shifted cash crop acreage to grass, the Government would pay him something. If he did not, the Government was powerless to deal with...
...minimum the chance of any taxpayer suit being brought in which the new law might be declared unconstitutional. Far from sure, however, was the New Deal that this plan would either achieve its purpose or be safe from Supreme Court destruction. Therefore it was treated as a two-year stopgap. For permanence it provided an oblique means of crop control; the new bill permitted the Secretary of Agriculture to provide the money and direction to operate crop control machinery set up by law in each of the states-the so-called "48 little AAA's." All each state would...
Significance. Not until the new "AAA" is drafted in the form of a bill will the New Deal know whether it is more than a stopgap, legally and economically. When that is known and when the public has had occasion to register its reaction there will still be time for Franklin Roosevelt to decide whether there will be any political advantage in advocating a Constitutional Amendment to short circuit Supreme Court interference with his economic plans. A new farm program had been conceived, but the politics of the farm issue was little further advanced than it had been...