Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twofold were Herbert Hoover's promises to U. S. farmers in the 1928 campaign. One was relief by means of a new Federal agency to assist in crop marketing. The other was relief by means of increased tariff rates on agricultural commodities, to protect the U. S. husbandman from foreign competition, to put him on a parity with U. S. industry...
...remaining two places in the competition go to "Stuart Whitney Cook '32, of Concord who will be Chairman of the Regatta Committee, and to Hoyt Landon Warner, Jr. '32, of Cleveland, Ohio, who will assist Cook on the Regatta Committee...
...always that His Holiness and His Excellency are reprehensibly in cahoots. Last week in the Vatican Gardens occurred a scene which made the scurrilous inkmen rub their stained hands with glee. Some 150 prominent Fascists, members of the Royal Automobile Club, had mo tored down from Milan to assist at the presentation to Pope Pius of a second new and sumptuous limousine (TIME, May 6). Senator Silvio Crespi, as President of the Club, raised the automobile's hood and briefly pointed out to His Holiness such mysterious gadgets as spark plugs, dual carburetors. Lastly came the scene which delighted...
...Cunningham '32 chairman of the Jubilee Committee, and W. B. Wood '32 will be the head ushers. The list of men who will assist them is as follows: J. W. Appel '32, C. F. Bound '32, G. C. Clark '32, R. H. Clark '32, W. G. Coogan '32, J. R. Collins '32, J. W. Crickard '32, W. H. Crosby '32, Warren Delano '32, Charles Devens '32, W. P. Eiwell '32, Reginald Fincke '32, Desmond Fitz Gerald '32, A. C. Forbes '32, F. R. Gilligan '32, J. L. Grandin '32, N. P. Hallowell '32, W. Van N. Jones...
Candidate Hoover discussed husbandry and its problems in his closing campaign speech, at St. Louis. President Hoover recommended to Congress a farm relief plan, consisting of tariff revisions and the creation of a Federal Farm Board with "adequate working capital" to reorganize marketing, to assist co-operatives handle surplus crops. Later, he opposed the export debenture plan produced by the Senate, whereby exporters of farm produce would receive a bounty equal to one-half the tariff rate on the same commodity (TIME, April...