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...evening last week three candidates for President, Franklin Roosevelt, Publisher Frank Knox and Senator Arthur Vandenberg. sat down with many another bigwig of Politics. Business and Press. They laughed until their sides ached at the political slapstick of the Gridiron Club's spring dinner. When the fun was over at a late hour. President Roosevelt, feeling all warm and good inside, went back to the White House. There he found waiting him a message from the Naval Hospital: Louis McHenry Howe, his No. 1 secretary, was dead. Mrs. Roosevelt was already telephoning the news to Mrs. Howe in Boston...
This disclosure of judicial integrity was the result of a clever bit of sleuthing by Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Last month that Michigan Republican began to display an inordinate curiosity about AAA's big beneficiaries. Who, he asked, was the cotton grower who received $168,000, the hog-raiser who received $219,825, the Puerto Rican sugar producer who received $961,064? In the Senate he offered a resolution requiring the Department of Agriculture to furnish a complete list of those ''farmers" who had received $10,000 or more in AAA benefits...
...Senator Vandenberg's Republican brand of curiosity greatly dismayed Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. To prepare such a list, he explained, would take much time, much money. Besides, the list might induce gangsters to invade the farm. He earnestly wondered if the farmer's daughter would then be safe. This thought did not appear so frightening to Senator Vandenberg. Snorted he: "If the farmer who made that $298.000 for not planting so many thousands of acres of cotton has a daughter, she must be a girl without a soul. That farmer was a corporation." Republican Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher...
...Senate began to press forward with the Vandenberg resolution to get the facts & figures on AAA's ghost. Secretary Wallace released a scattering of information on large benefit payments. Items...
...glad to supply a list of $10,000 AAA payments if Congress asked for it, but that he would hate to divert AAA's clerks from preparing checks to distribute $296,000,000 in benefit payments on 1935 crop contracts to compiling the list called for in the Vandenberg resolution...