Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wilfully conscientious members of Congress. Mr. Wallace, when he offered AAAmendments last year and again this year, explained that they were nothing but at tempts to "refine" and "strengthen" the existing law. In Mr. Wallace's eyes, the amendments doubtless are no more, for in his eyes AAA is simply an authorization from Congress to fulfill his father's desire to give all farmers a good price for their products...
...last year and again this year, Sena tor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia with many backers has sprung up to question Mr. Wallace's contention. For the chief disputed amendments-licensing and bookinspecting for processors-have nothing directly to do with carrying out AAA's program of "balancing" production of cotton, corn, hogs, wheat and other basic commodities. These new powers are for the purpose of letting AAA extend its control over other commodities. AAA answered this charge only in general terms. Said Chester Davis in a broadcast to farmers last month: "Unless the Act can be made...
Just squeeze a few chiseling middlemen- AAA officials said that was all their amendments aim to do. But who, asked Senator Byrd; ever heard of a bureaucrat not using all the powers given him? No silver-tongued orator is Harry Byrd but he is an apple grower, the biggest east of the Mississippi, operator of 10,000 acres of Virginia orchards. Said he last fortnight...
...rewritten on the floor, the Chamber declared its opposition to 1) the Social Security Bill. 2) the Public Utility Bill to abolish holding companies, 3) the section of the Banking Bill which proposes Government domination of the Federal Reserve System, 4) extension of the NRA except temporarily, 5) the AAA amendments (see p. 15), 6) all pending labor legislation. Only on such minor policies as transportation, reciprocal trade pacts, retirement of submarginal land and direct subsidies for shipping did the Chamber support the President. For good measure it tossed in a resolution demanding that any & all subversive Red activities...
...work with the laborers on his 4,000-acre ranch at Santa Rita. Calif., or on his 350-acre farm at Sibleyville, near Rochester. In Illinois, where he is the State's largest individual land owner, he owns the biggest corn farm in the world, and his AAA checks for crop reductions run to fat figures...