Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Mr. Stephens enjoyed the dignity and $10,000 pay of a U. S. Senator, one of his former political opponents in Mississippi was glad to hold the lowly job of newspaper clipper in the AAA at a salary of $6,000. The paper clipper was ex-Governor Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. Before primary time arrived "The Man" rushed back to Mississippi, proposed a 27-point platform for the beatification of Mississippi, attacked the record of Senator Stephens particularly because he had almost voted to give a Republican, Dr. Willard Thorp, a $9,000 job as an expert...
Again the theory of AAA has been struck by another mighty blow, the recent Western dust-storm. So serious is the situation that the AAA was forced yesterday to give up completely its stubbornly cherished wheat reduction program. Although the government will continue to pay farmers for crop reduction, the clause providing for limitation will not be enforced...
...crass stupidity of continuing the policy up to yesterday seems almost incredible. Last year's drought, predicted months in advance by students of metreology who had discovered a five-year period of abnormal rain-fall, reduced wheat production to a point which made even the AAA's effort appear puny by comparison. Because of the drought and government "planning" any surplus was expected to be negligible. Havoc wrought by the recent dust storm, coupled with continued government reduction, has now made any real surplus impossible and a shortage probable. High- or wheat prices, all ready reflected in the Chicago grain...
This presents a grim picture of "planning". Necessarily, planning pre-supposen an intelligent attempt to forsee the future. Yet the AAA apparently had no student of rainfall, climate and sell conditions on its staff, and continued to carry on its program in a state of blissful unconsciousness. Even after crop reduction was proved totally wrong by last year's debacle, the obdurate disregard of such factors as probable sell conditions and marginal safety has continued up to yesterday. When an agency has a record of "planning" like this, its downfall, predicted by many commentators, must be received as an unmitigated...
...motorized farm machinery, Amish husbandmen raise corn and tobacco which are best adapted for the efforts of man and horse. Last year the Pennsylvania Amishmen joined in the reduction of crops by voluntarily curtailing their tobacco acreage. They puzzled many a Washington official, played hob with many an AAA balance sheet, by refusing to accept any Government benefit money. Since then, however, as result of a referendum held in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Ohio, tobacco-growers who do not sign contracts are liable to a 33⅔% tax on the sale price of their crop. Other Mennonite farmers have therefore signed...