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...obligations, etc.) at the comparatively modest figure of $2,531,000,000 for 1934 and $2,487,000,000 for 1935 (see table). To these totals he added half a billion (for 1934) and three-quarters of a billion (for 1935)-entirely for expenditures by the AAA (which, because they are taken care of by processing taxes, he did not class as emergency expenses...
...Federal liquor tax is raised to $2 a gallon (see p. 15), nor about $150,000,000 which may be raised by plugging holes in the income tax law, nor any prospective War debt payments. In spite of these omissions, 1934 revenue was estimated to exceed ordinary expenses plus AAA's half billion by $215,000,000. And 1935 revenue was estimated to exceed ordinary expenses plus AAA's three-quarter billion...
...Restriction of the AAA's domestic allotment plan to wheat and cotton...
...swung the apple & pear-wine deal was Raymond Clendenin Miller of AAA. A native of Vincennes, Ind., Mr. Miller was preparing for his M. A. examinations at Catholic University when the War broke out. By the time his classmates were getting themselves fitted for graduating gowns, Mr. Miller was wearing an infantry lieutenant's uniform. He served with the 89th Division in France, later with the 160th U. S. Infantry Brigade. Back in Washington after the War, he operated three small cinema houses while studying for the foreign service at Georgetown...
...Peek considered, then accepted. The quarrel had pursued the normal course of quarrels between government cliques: from bitterness to outburst to balm for damaged feelings. As additional balm, Mr. Peek had the satisfaction of seeing three codes (retail food, wholesale food, food manufacturers) that had been transferred from AAA to NRA approved within 48 hr. and sent to the President without the stringent Tugwell amendments: 1) for government control, 2) for complete and honest food labeling and advertising...