FARMERS: Tottering Table

By radio one day last week AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis warned the nation's farmers that without amendments now pending in Congress the Agricultural Adjustment Act was like a square table with three legs. Same day came the news that two Republican holdovers had dealt Administrator Davis' table two blows which left it tottering.

Last year U. S. District Judge Charles Irvin Dawson of Louisville upheld the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Act "with extreme reluctance." Then this thin-lipped Southern Republican began to bear down on the New Deal in earnest. In quick succession he...

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