Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having surveyed the matter of too much water in the East, he will continue his non-political campaign by surveying the matter of too little water in the West when he starts on an extended Drought trip next week...
...politics on the drought trip?" queried a correspondent...
...opened one eye to a slit, then grinned at the gawping newshawks. In a few moments wires throughout the U. S. carried the news of how the Democratic and Republican nominees for the Presidency would meet in the midst of the campaign, discuss the non-political subject of Drought. To find an historical precedent, oldsters had to go back to 1896 when William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan, both out stumping, met by chance in a small Nebraska town...
Aside from a one-day trip to his home in Independence to vote in the Kansas primary, Alf M. Landon's chief interest last week was the Drought which Secretary of Agriculture Wallace gloomily admitted is now the worst in U. S. history. Since by the Kansas Constitution Governor Landon could not aid needy farmers with State funds, he set out to make others do the job. Through his efforts. Western railroads cut their fares one-third on hay and one-half on other feed shipped in for starving stock. The Santa Fe Railroad halved its tariff on water...
Biggest news linking Nominee Landon with the Drought last week came not from the Governor but from President Roosevelt, who informed newshawks at Hyde Park that he would invite the Governors of Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas to a Drought conference with him early next month. "Kansas?" asked a reporter. "Why not?" smiled the President...