Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proceeding to Indianapolis, the President spent two hours motoring over the city to look at WPA projects and visit the State Fair, three hours at the Indianapolis Athletic Club for luncheon and a Drought conference with the Governors and Senators of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan. The fact that he did not get the GOPresidential nomination enabled Michigan's Senator Vandenberg to be less circumspect than Alf Landon had been at Des Moines. Before entering the conference, Senator Vandenberg remarked: "It's been dry in Michigan, but we only knew casually it was a Drought until this trip...
From Indianapolis, the President sped back to Washington, there sped to a White House microphone to report to the nation on his tour. Studiously pedestrian in its "nonpolitical" approach to Drought, Franklin Roosevelt's first fireside talk of 1936 took on some of the verve of his previous radio heart-to-hearts when he turned to re-employment and his favorite theme of economic freedom. Said he: "My friends!* I have been on a journey of husbandry. . . . I saw drought devastation in nine states. I talked with families who had lost their wheat crop, lost their corn crop, lost...
...would not have you think for a single minute that there is permanent disaster in these Drought regions, or that the picture I saw meant depopulating these areas. No cracked earth, no blistering sun, no burning wind, no grasshoppers are a permanent match for the indomitable American farmers and stockmen and their wives and children...
While these plans were being perfected, Franklin Roosevelt, leisurely rolling East from Salt Lake City, with stops for Drought inspection in Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska, was pondering his own strategic problems. Well did he know that it was Nominee Landon's prospective attendance which had converted an otherwise routine conference into a spectacularly newsworthy event. He realized, too, that any attempt to take political advantage of that circumstance would react sharply against him. Day before the meeting it was announced that he would not seek to commit his conferees to any statement of policy. Sternly rejected was a proposal...
Barred out by a canvas screen were some 100 correspondents and photographers as the President and some 60 Governors, Senators and drought experts sat down to a fried-chicken lunch at seven round tables in Governor Herring's big reception room. But bursts of loud laughter and Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, popping out with a round-by-round account, kept the newshawks informed. Afterwards various official onlookers were glad to furnish details of the momentous meeting. At the President's table sat Federal District Judge Charles A. Dewey, four Democratic Governors and one Farmer-Laborite Governor (Iowa, Nebraska...