Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the President of the U. S. closed his Drought Relief controversy with Congress by signing the Interior Department Appropriation Bill carrying $20,000,000 for "food loans" (see col. 3). Of eleven supply measures which must be passed by Congress and signed by the President if an extra session is to be avoided, this was only the second...
...Cross Drought Drive President Hoover gave a check for $7,500 on his 32nd wedding anniversary...
...somewhat different manner the bigger and more serious legislative fight over Drought Relief was compromised last week by Senator Caraway's colleague. Senator Robinson of Arkansas. The day after Senator's Borah's thunderous speech last fortnight for food relief, President Hoover intimated that he might favor some sort of public aid if private charity failed (see p. 11). Shuttling back and forth for 48 hours between the White House and the Capitol went portly Senator Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader, trying to find a means of silencing Senator Borah, whom he fears, by pleasing Senator...
Eliminate the word "food" from Senator Robinson's proposal. Reduce the appropriation to $20,000,000. Provide that this sum be loaned on proper security to Drought area farmers for "further agricultural rehabilitation...
President Hoover accepted the Watson compromise because it did not specifically provide for food loans. Senator Robinson accepted it because it did not specifically bar them. President Hoover wrote Senator Robinson that the additional sum, which would run the Drought fund up to $65,000,000, would be used for "real aid," be administered "fairly and sympathetically." Both sides claimed a moral victory...