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Crazy Profusion. Congress cranked out farm bills like sausages. In 1938, with the enactment of the new AAA, parity at last came into full bloom. It was restricted at first to a few basic crops (wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco, rice), and prices were pegged at a modest percentage of the value those crops brought in the nostalgic golden days of 1909-14. But it was not long before the law covered almost everything that springs from the earth and a goodly share of the products that are raised above it (e.g., eggs, butter, cheese, hogs, etc.). Such operators as tung...
...career had followed a somewhat familiar path. Born in South Carolina, educated at Columbia University, Keyserling went to Harvard Law School. From there he entered the murky Washington labyrinth by way of Henry Wallace's AAA. He helped frame the Wagner Act. He worked his way onward & upward through the Housing agencies. He mastered the gobbledygook of economic language and the fast footwork needed for intramural debate. He learned to jump out from behind corners, making Keynesian faces at businessmen. In 1946, with a boost from Harry Truman, he landed on the newly constituted...
...Yanks, and with tomorrow the deadline for getting down to a 25-player roster, Manager Casey Stengel obtained waivers on the Big Cat. Today he picks up a minor league career which ceased over 15 years ago. He will play for Kansas City, the Yanks' American Association (Class AAA) farm club. The Yankees, short of first basemen, have kept him on 24-hour recall...
...Devil, he was ashamed to face his family and his neighbors. To his astonishment they were overwhelmed with pride and admiration-"the onliest real fine things we've ever had"-and the dogs brought him a kind of backwoods fame and prosperity. Bootleggers treated him with respect, the AAA lent him fertilizer for his fields, a dog-loving storekeeper advanced him credit, and the whole countryside conspired to keep his secret when he did a little moonshining to get the family through the winter...
...domestic issues he voted against TVA, AAA, NRA, Securities Exchange Act. He voted for the Social Security Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the NorrIS-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act; but from 1941 he has supported every important bill designed to balance the rights and duties of labor. In 1941, he voted against extending conscription and arming merchant ships, thereafter led the Republican minority in support of all war-winning measures. He voted for Bretton Woods, the United Nations. In 22 years in Congress he has had his name on no important bill...