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...estate of which Justice Van Devanter was executor was that of his late wife. The checks he received were AAA benefits for not growing wheat on two small tracts in Montana which had belonged to Mrs. Van Devanter. The act which Justice Van Devanter helped to annihilate last January was the AAA. The two checks he thereupon returned to the Treasury were...
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...
...weeks has managed to keep himself in the Congressional spotlight with his subtle attacks on the New Deal. Fortnight ago this Michigan Republican finally succeeded in beating efforts to appropriate money for the Florida ship canal (TIME, March 30). Last week he popped up with a modest resolution asking AAA to report the names of all farmers who received more than $10,000 a year in benefit payments...
...interested were Senators that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace hastened to tell the Press that he would be 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...
Egvptians 3,500 years ago suffered from an "AAA disease" which resembled chlorosis, was represented hieroglyphically by a schematic phallus. In the Middle Ages doctors called, it morbus virgineus (virgin's disease). Shakespeare called it greensickness. Victims were favorite subjects for portraiture. Best of such paintings is Gerard Dou's Mal d' Amour (see cut), which hangs in Buckingham Palace...