Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When AAA went by the board last January, President Roosevelt whipped through a befuddled Congress a stopgap measure called the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (TIME, March 9). The prime purpose of that law was to restore the flow of cash benefits from Washington to the nation's farmers which the Supreme Court decision had rudely interrupted. Yet the Soil Conservation Act compelled no farmer to do anything about limiting his production. If he shifted cash crop acreage to grass, the Government would pay him something. If he did not, the Government was powerless to deal with...
This disclosure of judicial integrity was the result of a clever bit of sleuthing by Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Last month that Michigan Republican began to display an inordinate curiosity about AAA's big beneficiaries. Who, he asked, was the cotton grower who received $168,000, the hog-raiser who received $219,825, the Puerto Rican sugar producer who received $961,064? In the Senate he offered a resolution requiring the Department of Agriculture to furnish a complete list of those ''farmers" who had received $10,000 or more in AAA benefits...
...Senate began to press forward with the Vandenberg resolution to get the facts & figures on AAA's ghost. Secretary Wallace released a scattering of information on large benefit payments. Items...
...contest in 1924 the Senate chose to seat his opponent. In retaliation he won a smashing re-election in 1926. In 1932, annoyed by disclosures that he had placed two brothers, two sons and one daughter on the Federal payroll, lowans turned Republican Brookhart down. Promptly he wangled an AAA position in Washington as "special adviser" on Russian trade. Last year he quit...
...back into the Senate. Already there are four other Republican candidates out for the seat now held by Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson. Aware that this split in votes would make things much easier for him in the June primaries. Candidate Brookhart put forward a platform calculated to outdo the AAA: export dumping, price-fixing on crops...