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...case in which a group of Florida citrus fruit growers were suing to enjoin Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's State control committee from enforcing proration regulations. "In the light of the Constitution, which I read once each week," said Judge Akerman, "the [AAA] act is so full of holes you could drive eight yoke of oxen through it. I would be more than happy if I could avoid deciding the questions presented in this case, but if I did I would be a coward. I cannot allow public clamor to deter my ruling...
Deter him it did not. Having listened to testimony from both sides for two days the bald, keen-eyed judge squared off with a spontaneous oral opinion which lasted five hours. Excerpts: "Now if this agricultural act, this AAA or QYZ or whatever it is-I cannot remember those names-is constitutional, if they are not invading the rights of private citizens, why, of course, they have the right to go on. If it is not constitutional and if it is a usurpation of power, then a citizen has a right . . . to ask the court to tell these gentlemen...
Never was an .able newsman more mistaken. By the time Mr. Pettey's dispatch reached the U. S., President Roosevelt had instructed the AAA to pour $10,000,000 worth of foodstuffs and other supplies into Cuba as a loan. Cuba's new Secretary of the Treasury said he would be glad to give every security for repayment in his power-the Cuban Treasury having been notoriously bankrupt for months...
Last year Sam Zemurray spent three days a week in United Fruit's Boston office, three days a week in its Manhattan office. But he managed to find time for three flying trips to Europe, several swings around the U. S. in the interests of the AAA's food advisory board...
...These figures include $515,000,000 for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in 1934 and $751,000,000 for the AAA in 1935 although the President's Budget message treats these sums as ordinary, not emergency expenses. The processing taxes, specifically earmarked for AAA expenses, are lumped under total receipts...