Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scab" is a nasty word. In reading your article [p. 11, TIME. Aug. 6] which describes the Chicago Stock Yards strike where 75,000 starving and thirsty cattle from the drought areas were left to suffer without water by the striking livestock handlers, I was surprised, pained and grieved to find TIME describing as "scabs" these "boys from droughty farms...
...heat was hard upon the flesh, drought was harder on the spirit. As he went into the "secondary" drought zone in Montana, Lawrence Westbrook, assist ant to Relief Administrator Harry Hop kins, boarded the train to give him figures: 24 States drought-devastated; 27,000,000 people drought-affected; 25% of the families in Montana and the Dakotas in need of transplanting to better lands; total damage to date $5,000,000,000. Next day in the deeper drought country, the President rode past fields where cattle were munching the last dry straws of a crop that would never...
...Green Bay, Wis., President Roosevelt shifted from drought to politics. Even the guidance of his special train through Wisconsin was given over to politics. His conductor was Thomas J. O'Malley of the Chicago & North Western, 47 years in railroading and father of three Democratic sons, the eldest of whom sits in Congress as a Milwaukee representative. But not for that reason alone was the twinkling-eyed, 67-year-old conductor given the honor of punching tickets on the Presidential Special. That same November election in 1932 which sent Franklin Roosevelt to the White House and made Son O'Malley...
...Dealers are trying this fall to elect a Congress of men who are unfriendly to the AAA and unfriendly to the farmers except in superficial lip service. They hope to do away with the processing tax. They recently have been pointing out the fact of the most extraordinary drought in 40 years as an argument for abandoning the entire agricultural adjustment program. This effort to use the fact of the drought as an attack on the Agricultural Adjustment program is typical of the shortsighted leadership of the Republican Party from...
Real opposition to AAA was of long standing but had not been taken seriously by Democratic politicians until Drought painfully sharpened arguments against their whole program. Prime criticism...