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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tactics. Despite Senator Brookhart and friends, however, President Hoover's opposition to the Senate bill began to show results. Support of the debenture plan began to crumble. Informal Senate polls predicted its probable defeat. Its advocates schemed how they could transfer it from the farm bill to the tariff bill, explaining that its location there would be more logical. In the tariff bill they thought it would muster more House support, would be harder for the President to veto. Nebraska's Norris drafted an amendment to reduce the bounty on crops over-produced...
Last July when the 1930 fiscal year began, President Coolidge, on the advice of Budget Director Lord and Treasury Estimator McCoy, warned of a deficit next June of 94 million dollars. Though it was only on paper, it was used in the campaign as an argument by Republicans against a change in administration, by Democrats as a sign of bad stewardship. By October, President Coolidge foresaw an even break between receipts and expenditures. By December, when President Coolidge sent his budget to Congress, he had discovered a timorous little surplus of 37 millions peeping up at him. By March...
...noon approached, good Squire Baldwin took his stance, puffing the most often caricatured pipe in England. He listened intently, visibly. "Clang . . . clang . . . clang . . . clang!" began Big Ben?but at the fifth stroke a pigeon descended with whirring wings and spoiled everything...
...trial, and started to read a short greeting, timed to end just as Big Ben commenced to strike. All went well until Mr. Baldwin lost his place in reading, paused awkwardly, and upon resuming did not get to the end of his remarks before Big Ben's 132-tons began to reverberate...
Since Mr. Barnhart was unable to be present at the opening of the meeting at 3 o'clock, Professor W. Y. Elliott began the conference. He explained first the purpose of the assembly and stressed the fact that the assembly was not being organized merely for the purpose of dramatizing the procedure of the League but rather to discuss subjects of international scope from the viewpoints of the different nations with foreign students presenting their opinions from the point of view of their respective governments...