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...weeks the cotton planting season will be over. For that reason the U. S. Senate last week curbed its 96 tongues, limiting each to 15 minutes exercise until a new farm bill should be passed. Passed in a few hasty weeks of 1933's emergency, the original AAA had imperfections which a majority of the Supreme Court was quick to spot last month. AAA's substitute was riding through Congress last week under circumstances not much better. Pressed by sprouting cotton seed and impatient farm leaders, Senators had no more time to consider than they...
...which Secretary Wallace could spend money, thus opening up to him vast opportunities to alter the natural drainage system of the U. S. The Court. Best oratorical efforts of the debate were devoted to the Supreme Court. In what amounted to the first serious Senate sound-off on the AAA decision, Nebraska's old, white-crested George William Norris spoke for two hours in spite of the limitation on debate. Declared this Republican New Dealer: "I have no doubt of [the bill's] constitutionality but I say, frankly, I do doubt whether it can receive the approval...
Chief job of answering the thrusts of unconstitutionality which Republican wheelhorses hurled at the AAA substitute fell to Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who would like some day to sit on the Supreme Court himself. So angry grew the Arkansan in argument with Senator Hastings of Delaware, so violently did he thump his desk, that he broke his inkwell...
...some $33,000,000. They wanted some $20,000,000 from Armour & Co. and Swift & Co., the remainder from 28 smaller packers. The amount claimed represented part of the processing tax money which had been put in escrow pending the Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of AAA (TIME, Jan. 20). When that question was inexorably answered in the negative last month, packers (in Chicago and elsewhere) promptly recovered taxes totaling some $50,000,000. Meanwhile processors of other farm products
...compulsory basis. The $200,000,000 of impounded processing taxes were not to be confused with the near billion of processing taxes which the Government had actually collected. The Treasury never got its hands on the impounded money, which remained in custody of various Federal Courts. When AAA had been declared invalid, and a rehearing of the case denied, the Federal Judges released the impounded taxes, most of which the processors have already recovered. The $1,000,000,000 will be much more difficult to get back. In 1935 the original AAAct was amended to provide that, even...