Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...involve other issues. It may affect the whole legislative program in Congress through log-rolling by the farm bloc. It is likely to be an important factor in the Congressional elections next fall. Its influence may go even further...
...present in Iowa: the price of corn, bank failures, etc.?the entire round of agricultural depression. The leaders of the issue-makers are Senator Capper of Kansas and Representative Dickinson of Iowa, both Republicans, champions in the two Houses of Congress of a rapidly reviving farm bloc...
...fixing.or its equivalent?some sort of export device to get rid of the farm surplus?the proposal of the farm bloc. They argue that prices are low because all the farm produce in which there is a surplus is sold at European prices. They say let a barrier be put up to maintain a high price in the domestic market, and take a loss if necessary on the surplus sold abroad. To this the Administration answers: If the farmers profit on their product, they will produce more; the surplus will grow larger until the loss on the surplus will...
...Those affiliated with the political bloc in the Chamber known as Le Cartel des Gauches (coalition of the Left Parties), which is headed by the Radical leader, former Premier Herriot...
...acknowledged authority on military affairs, a thorough Republican party man, says little, works hard, and is strangely respected by all factions, although still comparatively a young man (only 48). The combination of being a "regular" leader and yet aloof is unique. He is a farmer without a bloc, but that is because he is not a dirt farmer, but something more like a landed aristocrat. He has no political glad hand, no oratorical or political tricks. As Clinton W. Gilbert describes him: "When he speaks, he talks.common sense in an easy, unemphatic way, with a slight touch of impatience...