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...future, the Maybe might mean a great deal. It might not mean opposition to the whole farm program, but merely that farmers are not feeling bad enough just now to be willing to take castor oil. But one thing it did not mean was the wholehearted vote of confidence AAA was looking for, and that last week it needed as never before...
...AAA handed out its first big farm subsidy, $162,000,000 in benefit payments: to plow under 10,500,000 acres of cotton, kill 222,149 brood sows, 6,188,717 little pigs. Farm income rose...
...Supreme Court invalidated AAA's processing taxes, which had been paying most of the subsidy bill, and a worried Congress hastily patched up the old soil conservation law to deliver as "soil conservation payments" the checks the farmers wanted. With subsidies at $287,000,000 and income at $7,920,000,000, Franklin Roosevelt carried 46 States...
...labors, which began with an opinion on the President's power to call a bank holiday, written personally, in penciled long hand, in the Library of Congress while his chief's first inaugural was in progress March 4, 1933. He recalled the hot legal battles of AAA and NRA; the building of the FBI from a sleuthing unit to an armed force with powers of arrest and a sharp-toothed Federal crime code behind it; the improvement of U. S. prisons, notably the creation of Alcatraz. With special pride he pointed to the new rules for civil procedure...
Frank Theis worked for the AAA in the days when ploughing crops under was the New Deal's only way of fighting surpluses. After the Supreme Court ploughed that first AAA under in 1936, Frank Theis sold wheat in Kansas City, Mo., and the Government began fighting surpluses by stimulating distribution rather than just limiting production. Last week, Frank Theis and the U. S. Government were back together again-on the front pages of Rio de Janeiro newspapers...