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AAAdministrator Chester Davis were early callers, "bringing the President up to date on our activities." To bolster their corn-hog vote campaign (see col. 3), they later got a statement out of the President in which he declared AAA was on the books to stav. "It was never the idea of the men who framed the Act," said President Roosevelt, ". . . that the AAA should be either a mere emergency operation or a static agency. It was their intention, as it is mine, to pass from the purely emergency phases necessitated by a grave national crisis to a longtime, more permanent...
...part of a strong-armed bully in the Caribbean doesn't pay, even in a financial way. And the Philippines are being thrown into the discard for much the same reasons. As for trade, President Roosevelt has succeeded in reducing exports to negligible proportions by his triple-threat, the AAA. Further, shippers to warring countries have been warned that such trade is their own risk, not the nation...
...arbitrators are hand-picked panels of public-minded citizens in 1,700 U. S. cities. Special panels of experts are maintained for technical trade disputes. In Manhattan the AAA has nearly 1,500 in its panels including names like Banker Winthrop Aldrich, Lawyer James M. Beck, Cineman Jesse Lasky, Funnyman Eddie Cantor, Mrs. Vincent Astor. The arbitrators serve free, are called two or three times a year, may be excused if busy...
When a case is submitted to the AAA either jointly or by the disaffected party to a contract containing an arbitration clause, some 25 names are suggested as arbitrators. Each side strikes from the list any objectionable names and from the remaining roster the AAA picks the three arbitrators. At least one always knows the business or profession involved. Hearings seldom last more than one day, though each side may present evidence, produce witnesses, hire lawyers...
Last week an AAA decision made news because it not only was one of the rare cases where findings are published but it also affected a goodly number of investors who were not directly party to the dispute. The controversy was between two groups of New York Stock Exchange firms, one of which had sold, the other bought, Alleghany Corp. prior preferred stock "when, as and if issued...