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Denouncing the A.A.A. program for having "endangered our food supply, reduced consumption, and opened the avenue for future monopolies in which the farmer and rich processor would be able to gouge the consumer" Carle C. Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Sociology, recently returned from a White House visit at which he discussed the A.A.A. with President Roosevelt, yesterday hailed the Supreme Court decision with optimism...
...A.A.A. because it has raised prices, reduced consumption, made exports less than they would have been, has taxed the poor man in the city more than the wealthy, has endangered our food supply, and has opened the avenue for future monopolies in which the farmer and the rich processor would be able to gouge the consumer...
...suit of Hoosac Mills to be excused from paying processing and floor taxes on the ground that AAA is unconstitutional. The hearing, which began week before (TIME, Dec. 16), concluded last week when onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, after arguing that processing taxes were "robbing Peter the processor to pay Paul the producer," dropped his voice and declared...
...AAAmendments which permit processing tax recovery suits only when the processor can prove that he absorbed...
...Washington AAAttorney Seth Thomas declared sadly that he thought many a processor would be ruined if he instituted a suit and lost because the Government would then clap on tax penalties and bleed him severely. In western Kansas farmers did their part to discourage tax suits by declaring a boycott on a milling company. A group of Texans headed by Clifford Day, who led the farmers' march on Washington last May, went to Washington with expenses paid by AAA and returned home: 1) to stir up farmers to fight the Bankhead Act injunction; 2) to start a farm movement...