Agricultural Adjustment Act
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The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. The government bought livestock for slaughter a
Agricultural Adjustment Administration representative in his New Mexico office (1941)
A Roosevelt County, New Mexico, farmer and a County Agricultural Conservation Committee representative review the provisions of the AAA farm program to determine how it can best be applied on that particular acreage in 1934.
Barn on tenant's farm in Walker County, Alabama, 1937
Senator Elmer Thomas (left) with Claude M. Hurst and John Collier, members of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, and unassociated (directly) with the Thomas Amendment.
Nathan Witt
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Nathan Witt, born Nathan Wittowsky, was an American lawyer who is best known as being the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board from 1937 to 1940. He resigned from the NLRB after his communi
Witt in 1937
Lee Pressman (here during testimony before a Senate subcommittee on March 24, 1938) worked with Witt at the AAA (when they were both allegedly Ware Group members) and then was his law partner in 1950
Witt (center) with NLRB Chair J. Warren Madden (left) and NLRB Chief Counsel Charles Fahy December 13, 1937
US Representative Howard Worth Smith led investigations into Witt's activities at NLRB