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The Purge at the AAA
R. G. S. | February 20, 1935 issue

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The article focuses on the recent personnel changes in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Chester Davis, Administrator, has rid himself of Jerome Frank and four members of the legal department, Lee Pressman, Victor Rotnem, Alger Hiss, and Francis J. Shea. He has demoted Frederick Howe as consumers' counsel and dismissed Gardner Jackson, one of Howe's most active staff members. The surface explanation, however, is worth relating at some length, and not without sympathy. Davis is dealing with realities, with things as they are, with processors and distributors who are strong, with certain banded producers who are mighty in their field and can exert formidable political pressure.

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AGRICULTURAL Adjustment Administration (Organization); DAVIS, Chester; ORGANIZATIONAL change; PERSONNEL changes; JOB rotation; FRANK, Jerome; HISS, Alger; HOWE, Frederick
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