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...Raising of about $620,000,000 of annual revenue to pay for AAA's substitute and the Bonus, plus about $173,000,-ooo per year for three years to compensate the Treasury for invalidated processing taxes...
When Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg began baying on the trail of recipients of big AAA benefit payments. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace tossed out a few dry bones of figures-without-names which by no means satisfied the hunger of the Michigan GOPossibility (TIME, April 20). Last week the Senate's Democratic majority decided that it was the better part of politics to let Senator Vandenberg have his resolution directing the Department of Agriculture to furnish names of all those who had received AAA payments of $10,000 or more per year...
Popular with his rural constituents until he began maligning AAA, Senator Dickinson faces a hard fight for re-election this year. But that prospect has lately been assuaged by the buzzing in his large, well-shaped head of some such exciting thought as the following: "If Warren Harding could get the Republican Presidential nomination in 1920, why can't I get it in 1936?" Like Harding, "Dick" Dickinson, with his big frame, Roman features and shock of silver-white hair, makes a handsome, impressive figure. Like Harding, he would personify a return to normalcy after a hectic Democratic regime...
...governmental clutch from the throat of American business. ... In its effort to meet the agricultural problem, the New Deal has failed. . . . Needless, spendthrift addition to this crushing [national] debt is but little short of criminal." Last week it was widely noted that Senator Steiwer had voted for NRA. for AAA and the AAAmendments, had led the Senate fight against President Roosevelt's Economy Act of 1933, had twice voted to override the President's veto of the Bonus...
...future, now that the AAA has come to grief on the Supreme Court rocks, Mr. Wallace declines even to guess where prices may go in case farmer cooperation in the soil conservation substitute for the fallen crop control system is not complete. Since the farm voters bid fair to be in a position to look back yearningly at the AAA days when the time comes for weighing the respective merits of the party platforms this year, the Wallace outlook as to what may happen in 1937 and 1938 could make a great difference at the polls in November...