Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concrete evidence that Dr. Tugwell meant what he said, his critics point to the start which has been made in regimenting agriculture under AAA, to the strict codes which have been forced on agricultural industries, and to the Tugwell bill to make the Pure Food & Drug Act much more drastic and comprehensive, apply it to advertising as well as labeling. To prove that the present Food & Drug Act is already drastic enough to penalize honest men for mistakes. Dr. Tugwell's opponents unearthed a list of judgments obtained under that act and published by the Department of Agriculture last...
...Although the price rallied later in the day, it once touched 72⅞?−down more than 14? from the high of the previous week. When President Roosevelt took office nearly 14 months ago, wheat was selling in Chicago at 47? per bu. Since then the AAA has distributed $65,000,000 in subsidies to wheat growers to reduce production. Yet when last week's selling wave was over, wheat stood at 76? per bu. and the present crop carryover promised a surplus of 265,000,000 bu. on July...
...school building expert in the Office of Education. The other two women conform, like Miss Barrows, to a familiar Washington type: bright, obscure incumbents of small Government jobs, unmarried, unbeauteous as a rule, and with fairly elemental ideas about politics. Mary Taylor is editor of the AAA's Consumers' Guide. Hildegarde Kneeland has served for ten years as a minor official in the Home Economics Bureau...
...Wirt concluded his testimony with the dubious report that a member of AAA's staff suggested that "our objectives" would be furthered if less help for the hungry were forthcoming, that Dr. Tugwell had planned a $1.000,000 institution to incubate radical views among jobless young college graduates, that the government's subsistence homestead project near Morgantown, W. Va. was "communistic...
Last fortnight, after eight months of unsuccessful wrangling with AAA and NRA officials, the flour millers became the first industry to walk out cold on General Johnson. Their departure raised the question: Should the Administration crack down with its biggest club-power to license industries if they want to do business at all. That posed another bigger question. NRA was given two years of life by the Recovery Act but the licensing club was given to the President for only one year, ending June 16, 1934. If the President wants to use the club after that date he must...