Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution is the struggle between the President and the Senate for power. Last week President Hoover and the Senate became deadlocked in another major battle which made their past controversies over tariff flexibility, export debenture and drought relief look small. By snatching at the President's prime executive authority?his control of appointees?the Senate provoked a controversy which only the Supreme Court can authoritatively settle. By fighting back at the Senate's aggression President Hoover maintained the ancient tradition of his great office...
Passed a bill appropriating $45,000,000 for Drought Relief; sent it to the Senate; adopted a special rule to force it to conference over Urban objections...
Passed the House Bill for Drought Relief after increasing its appropriation to $60,000.000 to include human food loans...
...year-old legs carried the chairman of the American Red Cross sprily up the Capitol steps and on to the ornate room of the Senate Committee on appropriations. There he sat down in the witness chair, began to tell Senators just what his organization was doing about Drought relief...
What brought Chairman Payne to the Capitol was the fact that the Red Cross was under political fire. Senators from drought States were charging that it had fallen down on its relief job, were demanding that the U. S. Government step in and feed hungry husbandmen. Congressional attention had again been focussed on drought relief by last fortnight's demonstration at England, Ark. where 500 men & women with threats of violence obtained food from local merchants (TIME...