Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farm bloc scoffed, called it "a sop to the farmer vote." If they couldn't have the dear old Haugen Bill, they would see to it that no agricultural legislation got through. Senator Watson (Rep.) of Indiana, always a good schemer behind the scenes, tried to have the World War Veterans Bill given the right of way and thereby shelve all farm matters. Senator Willis of Ohio objected and prevented the Senate from totally disregarding the President's views...
...division of co-operative marketing in the Department of Agriculture, a bureau to assist the farmers with advice and information on how to get rid of their crops profitably. This bill is approved by the Administration. The House defeated (TIME, May 31) the Haugen bill advanced by the farm bloc for raising farm prices by buying up the surpluses of the major crops. In the Senate this second bill was proposed as an amendment to the first, and the whole program of farm relief of any kind was threatened, since neither Senate, House nor President was deemed willing to accept...
...recent years women leaders have become more diverse than they once were, just as their activities have become more diverse. The U. S. now has such diverse organizations as the National Woman's Party, which desires to be a real political party and set up a bloc to demand absolute equality for women; the League of Women Voters, content to work through existing parties for more modest political ends; the General Federation of Women's Clubs, with more general cultural aims, an amateur in the game of politics; and a host of societies intent on improving the world...
Members of the farm bloc, incensed by the defeat of the Haugen farm relief bill last week, blocked the effective working of the House, and action on a rivers and harbors bill and on a bill to raise the salaries of Federal judges was delayed...
...Committee on Agriculture whose farm bill is raising such a rumpus. You see that smart young man who is going around and making so much of a party out of this? That is John Philip Hill of Maryland, who has appropriated to himself the leadership of the vociferous Wet bloc. There is Jack Garner, the Democratic Chief on the Ways and Means Committee. It was he who united with Bill Green, the chairman, to make a non-partisan tax bill. That fellow with the flowing black locks, who looks so political-he is Tom Connally of Texas...