Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Artillery passed through Hyde Park. He closed the week by welcoming at his mother's house the People's Mandate Committee and listening with interest to its plea for Peace. But only two problems took much of his time out of his week of fun. One was Drought, the other Politics...
First to bring Drought to his doorstep was Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins who sought permission to increase the number of farmers on drought relief from 90,000 to 150,000. Next to bring Drought to his doorstep were Louis J. Taber and Fred Freestone of the National Grange, who arrived to suggest a system of crop insurance which they had already presented to Alf Landon, who promised it favorable consideration. Franklin Roosevelt promised no less. As for more immediate Drought problems, the President laid out in detail his trip to confer with officials of 16 Drought States, beginning this week...
Most eager to talk politics were newshawks. In response to their questions the President repeated his solemn declaration that there would be no politics in his Drought trip, not even at Des Moines where he will meet Governor Landon. In fact, he declared, politics would be "out"' two weeks hence when he addressed a seven-State Democratic rally at Charlotte, N. C., "out" the week after when he speaks at the 300th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College...
...Illinois. At Council Bluffs, he lost his Masonic ring while trying to shake a hundred upstretched hands at once. It was found later in the cinders of the road bed. At Cedar Rapids he announced again that he would accept President Roosevelt's invitation to confer on Drought next week, declared: "No individual and no organization should meet this problem from the point of view of politics. I am not concerned about where the credit goes in the solution of the problem of our drought just so we meet it in a humane, constructive, sensible way." That night Nominee...
...Coughlin, whose program of monetary reform is sound. . . . However, I think the defeat of Landon is of the utmost importance to the great masses of America. . . ." Second telegram was to Franklin Roosevelt, who had wired him to ''keep up the good fight," suggested seeing him on his drought trip to Minnesota. To the President the sick Governor replied: "Very happy to see you at St. Mary's Hospital Aug. 31." The Roosevelt-Olson meeting, however, was not destined to take place...