Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt not only looked as if he did not mind. He showed it. To farmers who "invaded" the Capital demanding more AAA (see p. 16), he made a rip-snorting speech. To rumors that he was going to wobble on his Bonus veto, he replied with a flat announcement that his veto would be as strong as he could make it. And two days later he electrified his press conference by abruptly grinding out a cigaret and saying he would not send a Bonus veto message. He would go to the Capitol and deliver it in person -the first...
Unlike the embattled National Recovery Administration, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has no limited term of life, is continuable at the will of the President. But AAA is seeking from Congress additional powers: 1) to license the handlers of sugar beets, fruit, vegetables, milk, milk products, wool and 2) to pry into the records of all handlers and manufacturers of all AAA products (TIME, May 13). Contrariwise, handlers who hate the AAA have launched a determined counter-drive to make Congress reduce instead of extend AAA's sway. Peak of this agitation came last month when a delegation...
Plainview, Tex. was credited with evolving the whole thing beneath his pearl grey ten-gallon hat. A tall, loose-jointed, deep-drawling farmer of 46, Cliff Day has a wife, six children and a 320-acre farm which has been judged "best-balanced" in the State. When AAA came along, Cliff Day was made Chairman of the State Cotton Advisory Board and Hale County...
Cotton Committeeman. And when processors began sniping at the cotton tax, Chairman Day and some of his public-spirited neighbors decided to invite representatives of the nation's farmers to rendezvous with them in Washington to "demand continuance of AAA and to point out the benefits already accrued them." The benefits were realistic. Hundreds of thousands of farmers like Cliff Day had dipped into...
...AAA's $742,000,000 benefit bag, thousands more, also like Cliff Day, were receiving small but welcome salaries as AAA field executives. So enthusiastic rural meetings took place all over the South and West, collections were raised to send delegates to Washington...