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...Farley suffers no such disadvantage, thanks to the fertility of the New Deal in producing new agencies and new jobs. In addition to about 75,000 regular Government jobs which were Mr. Farley's to give away, he got about 75,000 more as a result of the AAA, PWA, NRA, HOLC, etc. A little wire-pulling from the Post Office Department was all that was necessary to convince Congress that it would be best. because of the emergency, to put this new army of workers entirely beyond the reach of Civil Service requirements. Some high-minded New Dealers...
...voted for: 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Soldier Bonus (1924), Reapportionment (1929), Hoover moratorium (1931), Muscle Shoals (1931-33), RFC (1952), Bonus (1932), Repeal (1933), Economy Act (1933;), 16-to-1 silver (1933), AAA (1933), NIRA (1933), abrogating gold contracts (1933), St. Lawrence Waterway (1934), Cotton Control (1934), stock exchange regulation...
Next morning the nation learned that Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace and a U. S. Deputy Marshal had been playing a midnight game of volley ball with a Federal court summons. In Baltimore a suit had been filed by Royal Farms Dairy questioning the constitutionality of AAA, naming Secretary Wallace a defendant. Unable to tag him in the District of Columbia, the process server had seized the opportunity of cornering the sleeping Secretary while he was rolling through Maryland on his way to Chautauqua. N. Y. to deliver an address...
...cattle were let in to munch on what was left. Five hundred farmers in three Wisconsin counties rounded up 26,000 head of half starved cattle, loaded them on stock cars, shipped them north to rented fields in the Lake Superior region. At Kansas City, George E. Farrell of AAA estimated that the wheat crop was being abandoned at the rate of 1,000,000 bu. a day, that growers were losing $1,000,000 daily. On the Chicago wheat exchange, wheat rose almost its 5? limit to $1.07. This meant money only for farmers in Texas and Oklahoma...
Last week AAA reported it had spent $67,600,000 to reduce the U. S. wheat crop for 1934. At the same time the Department of Agriculture gave out its May estimate for the winter wheat crop:- 461,000,000 bu., which was 31,000,000 bu. less than the April estimate and 171,000,-ooo bu. less than the five-year average. There was little connection between the expenditure and the shrinkage, for a crop reduction agent more potent than AAA was at work. From Saskatchewan to Texas, from Montana to Ohio hardly any rain had fallen...