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Trusters from AAA, a dismissal the more pointed because its reason was undisguised: a disagreement over policies in which the radicals were ousted...
Headlines splashed front pages. Businessmen rejoiced at the big Russian trade that would soon be theirs. Ex-Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, Russian-trade adviser of AAA, declared that as soon as adequate credits could be arranged, Russia would be in a position to buy $520,000,000 worth of U. S. goods every year. Said Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinoff who traveled from Moscow to Washington to conduct the negotiations that led up to recognition: "Enjoying the lowest foreign indebtedness in the world, the Soviet Union has the greatest capacity for absorbing the raw materials and products of other...
Washington, Feb. 6--Men with "mud on their boots" were in complete command of the AAA tonight after a personal purge turned out half a dozen of the "brain trust" element...
Secretary Henry A. Wallace and AAA Administrator Chester C. Davis, farmers both, fired Jerome N. Frank, AAA chief counsel, and at least three of his "liberal" satellites, none of whom have callouses from a plow handle...
...tons) to supply the U. S., biggest sugar-eating nation, for a year and a half. But two months ago, for technical reasons, short traders on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange could not get enough sugar to fulfill December contracts of 26,450 tons (TIME, Dec. 31). The AAA quotas for Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines had been filled for the year. Cuba had given to U. S. refiners what amounted to an option on the rest of the Cuban quota. Surplus sugar accumulated from other years was not tenderable in fulfillment of Exchange contracts. So the shorts...