Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ickes. When Mr. Ickes hinted that the fascist-inclined plutocracy in America would be defeated by anti-monopoly legislation, he forgot to mention that the government itself tried to foster monopoly and regiment the people under the NRA, which told business to fix its own prices, and under the AAA, in which Washington played Big Bad Wolf to all the pigs and regulated crop planting for the farmers...
...line politicians have found irritating. An amateur politician, he was once the sole Democrat in the Wyoming Legislature and served a term as mayor of his home city of Laramie. A stout New Dealer, he has worked for his friend Jerome Frank as Assistant General Counsel of AAA, for his friend Bill Douglas as trial examiner for the SEC, for his friend Robert H. Jackson as a special consultant in the Department of Justice's trust-busting campaign. An able trial lawyer, he was at one time Dean of West Virginia University's Law School and left there...
...consumed 6,706,000 tons of sugar. The AAA quota for 1937 was first set at 6,682,000 tons, then raised to a whopping 7,042,000. But consumption in the U. S. has plummeted during the past three months of depression and sugar-men now fear that this year's consumption will not equal even the original 1937 quota. They were distinctly irked, therefore, when Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace last week set a new 1938 quota of 6,861,000 tons. Said the Wall Street Journal: "In the opinion of the trade a quota...
...power. As head of a farm organization whose 408,000 members in 40 States are a more united force than the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, 62-year-old Ed O'Neal has been since 1931 the most influential farm leader in the land. When Henry Wallace projected AAA which required a nation-wide executive setup to estimate crop acreages, the Farm Bureau's 1,800 functioning county organizations stepped into the breach and Ed O'Neal stepped into the Administration. Although the New Deal's lavish benefit payments helped all farm organizations, they helped...
...plain-garbed, plain-spoken Mennonites and Amishmen of Pennsylvania, the New Deal has meant a far from abundant life. Because the Amish churches frown upon written contracts, loans, gifts and joining secular organizations, the "plain people" declined to sign contracts with the AAA, or accept its benefits, although they were willing to reduce acre: age where the law required. Mennonites in industry pay Social Security taxes, but declare they will not accept Social Security pensions. Nor will they join labor unions, although they meekly allow union dues to be "checked off" their wages...