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...Hawaii that if the H.S.P.A. lost the suit it would of course do them no good and also that if they won the suit the continental United States sugar markets would be automatically closed to them. Of course this last contention is sheer bunk; and most of the AAA people knew it. But the purpose of Mr. Sturges' speech was to attempt to fool the people of Hawaii into believing that the Island would be economically ruined if the H.S.P.A. won! The Islands were not fooled but were enraged. Officials in Washington admitted the speech was a "trial balloon...
...sometimes does when he has a point to make to the country through its newspapers. President Roosevelt primed a friendly newshawk to ask him about commodity prices at last week's first press conference. He thereupon delivered a 20-min. discourse. Chief points: 1) the Administration, through AAA, HOLC and NRA, is still firmly committed to raising the national price level; 2) the goal will not necessarily be the fabled 1926 index, may aim at pre-War parity between agricultural and industrial prices; 3) wages will have to be upped responsively...
...Henry Agard Wallace is a fire-breathing radical, he thinks of himself as a "middleaged, middle-course" person. New Frontiers, written with enthusiastic garrulity, is an argumentatively factual account-rendered of his stewardship so far, his hopes, plans for the future. He believes the new social machinery, such as AAA, "just as important" as the invention of the automobile. Chief objective of U. S. government in the next ten years, says he, should be "so to manage the tariff, and the money system, to control railroad interest rates; and to encourage price and production policies that will maintain a continually...
...Last year he could not raise $500 to settle a claim against his $75,000 "dream home" at Poplarville, where he grows pecans. A cousin took the place over and Democrat Bilbo was delighted to get a $6,000-a-year job in Washington clipping newspapers for AAA in an office across the hall from the men's toilet (TIME, July 3, 1933). It looked as if the runty, pistol-scarred backwoodsman was politically through. But when he heard that the Senate Commerce Committee, on which sat Mississippi's junior Senator Hubert Durrett Stephens, was considering the appointment...
...courtroom where he is supposed to comment on governmental matters. The division between the Executive and Legislative branches has certainly become less sharp these last two years. Congress has entrusted some of its powers to the President and has yielded others to organizations like the NRA and AAA which by simple decree exercise them. As a result the representatives that the people have elected to make laws for them have given away their privilege to officials appointed by the President...