Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Even in the presidential landslide years of 1928 and 1932, just over 60% of qualified voters went to the polls. But lean, Lincolnesque Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace is seldom satisfied with any result short of the ideal. He did not hide his disappointment over the result of AAA's corn-hog vote, first substantial figures on which were released in Washington last week...
...farmers in 16 states who had already received $119,000,000 and would receive some $200,000,000 more for reducing corn-hog production, AAA sent ballots asking if they favored continuance of the plan. Five hundred thousand, or just over 40% of them, answered. Nebraska and Kansas turned thumbs down. But Iowa was 3-to-1 in favor of more control and more Federal money. Mighty Texas, recipient of more agricultural benefits than any other state, voted 9-to-1 for continuance. Total vote was favorable 2-to-1. "But if we are going to have a real economic...
Drought and AAA slashed the 1934 corn crop to 56% its normal volume, with a relative decrease in pork production. According to Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, Department of Agriculture economist, pork prices have risen so high that a national "consumers' strike" is now on. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics foresees still higher prices for chickens, eggs...
...close, it became plain that Mr. Roosevelt was finding that the ending to his story presented difficulties. People were beginning to feel that the government was spending millions with no carefully-constructed plan. They were laying labor unrest at the door of the NRA; higher food prices to the AAA. In short, recovery does not seem so sure a bet as it did a short time ago. What is more natural than that Harvard with its conservative leanings should take up its conservative leanings should take up its beliefs again...
...Hawaii that if the H.S.P.A. lost the suit it would of course do them no good and also that if they won the suit the continental United States sugar markets would be automatically closed to them. Of course this last contention is sheer bunk; and most of the AAA people knew it. But the purpose of Mr. Sturges' speech was to attempt to fool the people of Hawaii into believing that the Island would be economically ruined if the H.S.P.A. won! The Islands were not fooled but were enraged. Officials in Washington admitted the speech was a "trial balloon...