Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bankhead Act, 2) the Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act, 3) the Potato-Control Act, which Washington has assumed would be found unconstitutional as soon as the Supreme Court got around to them. The President's reason for repeal: They are now useless having been "auxiliary" to the late AAA...
Assuming that all the 75,000,000 adult inhabitants of the U. S. could be induced to buy admission to a birthday ball, tickets would have to be priced at $10 a head to raise the $550,000,000 required to pay for the New Deal's AAA substitute and the $200,000,000 in processing taxes ordered refunded by the Supreme Court. To raise the $2,250,000,000 required to pay the Bonus, there would have to be another birthday ball with tickets at $30 a head. The gentlemen in the President's office had, however...
Sirs: A blossom to TIME'S copywriters (Jan. 13, p. 13) for their crisp, 75-word, four-sentence summary of illegal and defunct AAA-so simple even a Democrat should understand. VIOLET G. OWENS St. Louis...
...before Herbert Hoover spoke at Lincoln two newshawks strolled in to see Chester Davis, Administrator of the late AAA. One was James Russell Wiggins, correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the other Felix Belair Jr. of the New York Times. Mr. Davis poured his woes into their ears...
Apparently underlying last week's vague uneasiness were two things: 1) Re-emergence of the Administration's policy as the dominant business news. Agitated were businessmen by the Bonus, the Budget, AAA substitutes, recent flutters in the dollar; the new mysteries of silver, which declined last week to 44¼? per oz., approximately the price when Silver Purchase Act was signed in 1934; Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's estimated need for $11,000,000,000 in new and refunding money in the next 17 months; the resignation of T. Jefferson Coolidge as Undersecretary of the Treasury...