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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed (366 to 35) a farm relief bill without the export debenture plan (see p.13...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Senator Brookhart: "This Senate Bill gives it no arm to buy and sell the surpluses of farm products . . . cuts out the very pledge made by the President so distinctly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senators v. Hoover | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senators v. Hoover | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...formal show of sovereign independence, Cuba remains a U. S. appendix, attached not only by trade and finance but semi-politically by the Platt Amendment. Said this provision (tacked on to the 1901 Army Appropriation Bill and never since retracted): "The government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the protection of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty. ..." It was under this authority that the U. S. Army occupied Cuba from 1906 to 1909 to suppress uprisings and restore constitutional government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appendix | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...Conservative Party's record. He now came to a vote-getting, unexpected, radical electioneering premise which party strategists had calculated would appeal to the 5,000,000 women between 21 and 30 who have just been enfranchised for the first time by the so-called "Votes for Flappers Bill" (TIME, Aug. 13, et ante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shy Baldwin | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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