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...President's plan for reorganization of the Supreme Court, the question of speed is a favorite one among such men as Homer Cummings and James Farley. Taking a pious and sanctimonious attitude, these gentlemen contend that there is such a crying need for social legislation of the NRA and AAA type, that delay is impossible. We are told that a constitutional amendment to legalize minimum wage laws and maximum hours of work regulations would take too long to put through, and that no time must be wasted in achieving this desired goal...
...drops. The committee thought a $100,000,000 appropriation would be enough to get the system going, with the Government (i.e., the general taxpayer) bearing administrative costs. Lest this seem a new and greater bounty to farmers, the committee pointed out that in the past ten years, exclusive of AAA benefits, the Government has paid $615,937,000 to stricken farmers in the shape of Relief, feed loans, seed loans. Crop insurance would be voluntary, and so far farmers have shown no great enthusiasm for it. But Secretary Wallace has long waxed enthusiastic about the "ever-normal granary" or "Joseph...
...that sales were $831,671,000 and tonnage at an all-time peak. Wilson & Co. showed a slight decline ($4,068,000 as against $4,109,000). Basic reason for this countertrend in a year of expanding industrial earnings was the confusion in meat markets caused by invalidation of AAA processing taxes and the subsequent drought, which forced farmers to slaughter a vast number of animals they could not feed. Although Cudahy Packing increased its profits from $1,211,000 in 1935 to $1,815,000, President Edward A. Cudahy Jr. wrote his stockholders that results "did not come...
Major costs among new functions and duties which the Government has undertaken include something under $500,000,000 a year for AAA, something under $400,000,000 for CCC, an estimate of $451,000,000 in fiscal 1938 for "General Public Works" (capital expenditures including $130,000,000 for the Army's Rivers & Harbors and Flood Control and other sums for other departments), $836,000 for Social Security...
...discovered in Mexico by the Spanish conquistadores, is a sensitive plant, takes from six to eight years of careful tending before it yields a good crop of cocoa beans. In West Africa where one-third of the world's crop is harvested, native growers put in an AAA; of their own in 1930 and 1931. Rather than sell at Depression prices they let hundreds of acres revert to jungle, planted no new trees which would be bearing...