Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obligations, etc.) at the comparatively modest figure of $2,531,000,000 for 1934 and $2,487,000,000 for 1935 (see table). To these totals he added half a billion (for 1934) and three-quarters of a billion (for 1935)-entirely for expenditures by the AAA (which, because they are taken care of by processing taxes, he did not class as emergency expenses...
...Restriction of the AAA's domestic allotment plan to wheat and cotton...
...swung the apple & pear-wine deal was Raymond Clendenin Miller of AAA. A native of Vincennes, Ind., Mr. Miller was preparing for his M. A. examinations at Catholic University when the War broke out. By the time his classmates were getting themselves fitted for graduating gowns, Mr. Miller was wearing an infantry lieutenant's uniform. He served with the 89th Division in France, later with the 160th U. S. Infantry Brigade. Back in Washington after the War, he operated three small cinema houses while studying for the foreign service at Georgetown...
Meanwhile Mr. Wallace, with Mr. Tugwell standing at his elbow, told the Press that the objectives of the AAA were "a better balanced income in order to give the farmers a fair share without doing injustice to the consumer. I think George and Rex see absolutely eye to eye on these objectives." Meanwhile, also, Braintrusters were intimating to the Press "off the record" that Mr. Peek had messed up the AAA. Mr. Peek was reported to have told friends that: 1) either he or Mr. Frank would have to go; 2) he would be ready to appear at any time...
...Peek considered, then accepted. The quarrel had pursued the normal course of quarrels between government cliques: from bitterness to outburst to balm for damaged feelings. As additional balm, Mr. Peek had the satisfaction of seeing three codes (retail food, wholesale food, food manufacturers) that had been transferred from AAA to NRA approved within 48 hr. and sent to the President without the stringent Tugwell amendments: 1) for government control, 2) for complete and honest food labeling and advertising...