Word: barrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the platform a plank for insurance of bank deposits in banks which are members of the Federal Reserve system, I intend to work for such insurance, if elected. I propose to fight for an adequate tariff to protect the oil industry of this State. Twenty-one cents per barrel is wholly inadequate...
...what France and Britain have already paid back and figure out how much better it would be for us to have, from now on. like sums in trade from those countries, so it would come direct to our pockets instead of draining down through the Washington pork barrel and the gaping pockets of a lot of racketeering "heroes" not half of whom really fought for their country in the War. I challenge any or all fellow TIME-readers to advance three, or even one. sound argument for collecting what is left of the War Debts! JAMES G. WEBB St. Louis...
...Because he proposed to build a billion dollars' worth of postoffices and what not. Then because he proposed to lend money to as many persons as possible. ... It would be a hideous waste of money to build Mr. Garner's postoffices. But radical it would not be. The pork barrel is one of our most ancient institutions. . . . Mr. Garner's money lending plan was a cruel deception; it was like offering everyone a drink out of a half-pint flask. His projects reflect upon his judgment but they do not challenge the foundations of the existing social order. . . . Mr. Garner...
...have a solid backlog of assurance that there need be no hunger and cold in the United States. . . . The obnoxious features injected by members of the House have been eliminated. The $100,000.000 charity feature has been abandoned. The pork barrel infection has been eliminated...
...intensely regret these major provisions . . . committing the Federal Treasury to the expenditure of from $500,000,000 to $1,200,000,000 for non-productive public works. . . . Any study will indicate their pork-barrel characteristics. . . . They are wasteful . . . not economically needed ... a squandering of public money. ... A deficiency [will be] created in the Budget [which] cannot be disguised by accounting phrases. . . . Ve have worked for four months in heart- breaking struggle to balance the Budget. ... To start now to break Federal credit will result in the eventual unemployment of far more men than this comparatively few benefited. . . . There is. however...