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...From conferences whose aim was to find a way out of the muddle left by the abolition of AAA, President Roosevelt took time out for two gracious acts. He dropped in unexpectedly to chat with the directors of the General Federation of Women's Clubs who were having tea with his wife at the White House. He sent to Congress a special message urging the appropriation of $500 as compensation for personal injuries suffered year ago by "Mrs. M. N. Shwamberg, nationality indeterminable ... as a result of a collision between a public jinrikisha in which she was riding...
...Could those who had paid approximately $1,200,000,000 in processing taxes directly to the Government recover them, now that AAA has been found unconstitutional...
...Bankhead Cotton Control Act unconstitutional along with AAA...
...confusion that followed the death of NRA the stockmarket went into a sharp decline. With this false movement well in mind, the market hesitated for only a few hours after the overthrow of AAA, then surged upward in a series of 3,000,000-share days that last week carried the industrial averages to new highs since November. Thus did business register its long view on the aftermath of AAA.* However, most businessmen were more concerned last week with the immediate results of AAA's passing upon these commodities...
...Wilson, all U. S. packers of meat. In November 1933, the U. S. Government begar collecting a pork-processing tax. Set at $2.25 per cwt. of pig slaughtered, the tax yielded $255,000,000 by June 1935. Then packers went to court, got injunctions against further tax collections until AAA's constitutionality could be determined. The special tax funds, in escrow, awaited the Supreme Court's decision. Last fortnight the AAA became the late AAA. Last week the Supreme Court ruled that impounded processing taxes must be returned to tax payers (see p. 17). So happy packers...