Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time this year President Hoover & friends motored to the Rapidan camp for the weekend. Gone were the effects of last Autumn's Drought. The President caught the limit of 20 trout. Driving back to Washington his motor was stalled for 40 min. in a Sunday traffic jam over the Potomac bridge. Motorists greeted him with amused cheers and applause. When an old Ford, with an old Negro in it and a potato plugging the gas tank, stalled beside the way, the President smiled...
...years ago, he refused to follow the usual presidential custom of addressing the annual meeting of the American Red Cross. Though his political office automatically made him honorary Red Cross president, he felt that he could not waste time in mere speechmaking. Since then there has been a great Drought in which the Red Cross became President Hoover's major instrument of relief, his chief weapon to fight congressional demands for Government assistance. Last week he was only too pleased to go before the 1931 meeting of the Red Cross in Washington and laud it for preserving "a great...
What made President Hoover feel good last week about the Drought and the Red Cross was the report he received from Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, just back from an inspection trip. The President did the extraordinary thing of turning his office over to Secretary Hyde to address the Press thus: "Those Drought relief loans have reached the spot. . . . You can see new garden fences. . . . There is a very much more hopeful attitude all through the country. ... I didn't find a single criticism. ... I heard nothing of human suffering...
President Hoover would thank U. S. womanhood for Drought and Unemployment "in his own way and time...
...Cross last week collected the final dollars of its $10,000,000 drought relief fund-and $5,828.34 extra-in time for Chairman John Barton Payne to say, with calendar meticulousness: "It must be a source of satisfaction to the thousands who contributed . . . to know that they have helped their fellow-citizens over this calamitous winter season. . . . Magnificent support . . . all praise...