Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haugen plan," the darling of them all, was to be managed by a well-oiled coalition of the South and the Corn Belt. In the night before the voting, a plan was hatched. It sounded good: $150,000,000 was to be set aside as a revolving fund to aid in the marketing of farm products. This was to be paid for by an equalization fee. But to lure the Dixie Senators, one-half of this amount was to be used for cotton marketing, and their equalization fee was to be deferred for three years. This alliance was supposed...
...White House breakfast next morning, the President with the aid of good friend Senator Butler, decided that something-ought-to-be-done. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and Secretary of Commerce Hoover were summoned. They thought so, too. A Coolidge statement was sent out urging agrarian reform on a "sound basis." Congress was urged to adopt the Fess Bill which would set up a co-operative marketing bureau, financed by a $100,000,000 fund...
...From Scot and Lot, a phrase common in the records of English medieval boroughs, applied to those householders who were assessed to any payment (such as tallage, aid etc.) made by the borough for local or national purposes...
...work as President has been broken. I had favored American aid toward bringing about a settlement in face of the opposition of public opinion in my country, and I prevented the question from being presented to the League, having faith in the United States...
...appeared last week that the young Cornelius Vanderbilt IV string of newspapers was pretty well wrecked. About two months ago (TIME, May 10), the younger Vanderbilt was forced to asknowledge publicly that he was in financial difficulties and to call for aid-$300,000-to keep his three papers running. Soon afterwards his San Francisco paper, the Illustrated Herald, suspended publication, and his Los Angeles paper, the Illustrated News, went into receivership. Last week his Miami paper, the Illustrated Tab, failed to appear. The owner of its offices had taken legal measures to oust it for failure to pay rent...