Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immensely satisfied, the President said: "After many years of contention we have at last made a constructive start at agricultural relief. . . ." Soon he was again given cause for satisfaction. Congress appropriated the $150,000,000 required to start the machinery set up in the new law (see p. 12), to select "farm-minded" members of the New Federal Farm Board. There were some 200 candidates for these positions...
...Hoover victory in his first major fight with the Congress was not easily won. To get what he wanted?a farm bill without a federal subsidy?he had to sacrifice his tenet that a President should never interfere with Congress, should never dictate to it on legislation. When, earlier in the week, the Senate had ignored his advice and voted to uphold its export debenture plan, the President very definitely interfered, very distinctly dictated...
First he made an appeal to the country, thus: "The vote in the Senate today adds further delay to farm relief and may gravely jeopardize the enactment of legislation. ... I earnestly hope that the Congress will enact the conferees' report...
Farm relief last week actually began its journey from the field of legislation to the husbandman's acres. The Congress, straining and wheezing, passed an administration bill, minus the export debenture plan and President Hoover, signing it with a smile and two pens, called it "The most important measure ever passed by congress in aid of a single industry." It was an end and a beginning...
...continue to place a premium on such action, and take no steps to punish it, future transatlantic planes will have to be built with special cabins for stowaways, and Congress will have to establish some new honor to confer on such people. On the other hand if Schrieber received a jail sentence or a heavy fine, which would offset the thousands he is making now, the danger of the recurrence of such actions would be greatly lessened...