Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case in which a group of Florida citrus fruit growers were suing to enjoin Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's State control committee from enforcing proration regulations. "In the light of the Constitution, which I read once each week," said Judge Akerman, "the [AAA] act is so full of holes you could drive eight yoke of oxen through it. I would be more than happy if I could avoid deciding the questions presented in this case, but if I did I would be a coward. I cannot allow public clamor to deter my ruling...
Never was an .able newsman more mistaken. By the time Mr. Pettey's dispatch reached the U. S., President Roosevelt had instructed the AAA to pour $10,000,000 worth of foodstuffs and other supplies into Cuba as a loan. Cuba's new Secretary of the Treasury said he would be glad to give every security for repayment in his power-the Cuban Treasury having been notoriously bankrupt for months...
Last year Sam Zemurray spent three days a week in United Fruit's Boston office, three days a week in its Manhattan office. But he managed to find time for three flying trips to Europe, several swings around the U. S. in the interests of the AAA's food advisory board...
...These figures include $515,000,000 for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in 1934 and $751,000,000 for the AAA in 1935 although the President's Budget message treats these sums as ordinary, not emergency expenses. The processing taxes, specifically earmarked for AAA expenses, are lumped under total receipts...
...Federal liquor tax is raised to $2 a gallon (see p. 15), nor about $150,000,000 which may be raised by plugging holes in the income tax law, nor any prospective War debt payments. In spite of these omissions, 1934 revenue was estimated to exceed ordinary expenses plus AAA's half billion by $215,000,000. And 1935 revenue was estimated to exceed ordinary expenses plus AAA's three-quarter billion...