Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill. Senator McNary last fortnight explained, and last week the Committee on Agriculture reported favorably, a draft modified to meet nine of President Coolidge's last objections. The new bill calls for a $250,000,000 revolving fund to be loaned by the Government to marketing associations to aid in selling surplus crops in an "orderly" way. Also, it would establish a Federal Farm Board to administer this fund and it removes all restrictions from the President in naming this Board's members. Also, it makes the relief provisions applicable to all farm produce instead of only...
...Student Vagabond has disliked the month of March. Notwithstanding its general accepted zoological aspects, this month has always seemed to him more or less a Sahara: nor do the prevalent examinations--leading educators are agreeing with the Vagabond that they are a bane--serve in any way to aid the desert in its traditional work of blossoming as the rose...
...bill pays more attention to the power project, although the plant was originally planned for its nitrate development. Farm aid is now more logically a secondary factor and the power the primary object. Such a power centre is needed in the middle west and if the Senate puts the bill through it will be seizing an opportunity to utilize a white elephant by making him earn his living...
...observed buffalo, ate dog meat, charted the Continental Divide. Returning to Washington where Jessie lay in childbirth, he spread over her bed a ragged flag, said: "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. I have brought it to you." Then, with Jessie's aid, he wrote a report of his trip which exploded the myth that the "Great American Desert" lay between Missouri and the Rockies. The public read the document avidly; the movement westward was stimulated...
...purpose of the Legal Aid Society is to furnish free legal aid to students in the University. The society's offices are located in Central Square, and office hours are held every day from 4 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon and from 7 to 9 o'clock in the evening. The Society will close the Central Square offices on April 1, and will open them again on October...