Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week it transpired that the National Farmers' Union had placed before the President a memorandum charging that farmers in Arkansas were being dispossessed of their land by excessive assessments levied for roads built with Federal aid. Within two hours the President wrote to Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, directing that no more road-aid money be allotted to Arkansas until the charges were cleared...
Secretary Wallace was not long in replying to these charges, setting forth his side of the case: "Because of the peculiar road system adopted in Arkansas, Federal aid administration has been exceedingly difficult. In April, 1921, it was discovered that great injustices were practised in these road districts, of which at that time there were more than 500, but in only 110 of which Federal aid had been granted. . . . None of these conditions affected Federal funds, nor could they be remedied by Federal authority. . . . Many complaints were received. . . . Most of them came from districts in which no Federal funds were...
...Mellon replied by letter. He pointed out that there were three principal options, in the generally proposed bill, as to the form in which veterans might take their bonuses: 1) farm and home aid; 2) vocational training aid; 3) certificates, for later payment...
...Farm and home aid, total $2,068,662,903; average for the first four years...
With the peasants the Government is even more concerned, because they represent the vast majority of the population. The establishment of land banks to aid them, and the reform of the cooperative associations on the pre-revolutionary model were the measures brought forward. The principal feature of the reform of the cooperatives is that it will restore voluntary membership and will complete for the peasants that economic freedom laid down for them in the N. E. P. (New Economic Policy) formulated by M. Lenin, President of the People's Commissaries...