Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reference to President Hoover's charge that the Senate was "playing politics at the expense of human misery" when it opposed his Drought and Depression relief plans (TIME...
Because they are spectacular and photographic, catastrophes like fires and floods stir public imagination, bring generous popular relief. Because they are intangible, slow-working disasters with long-delayed effects, droughts are soon forgotten and minimized by citizens outside the afflicted area. When the Mississippi flooded in 1927 the Red Cross quickly raised $17,000,000 by popular subscription for relief. The Drought of 1930 was left to the Red Cross to relieve with a $5,000,000 "emergency" fund and no special public appeal...
City dwellers last week were sharply reminded of the Drought when 500 half-starved farmers and their wives raided the food stores of England, Ark. (pop. 2,408). Most of these hungry citizens were white; had been fairly prosperous husbandmen until last year. Their crops had been ruined. Their provisions were gone...
...Cross announced it was already feeding 100,000 persons in Arkansas, expected 250,000 would be demanding food by Feb. 1. Senators Robinson and Caraway of Arkansas were leaders in the unsuccessful fight last month to include food for humans in the $45,000,000 Drought relief bill. Recalled was President Hoover's warning last summer: "From a relief point of view the burden of the [Drought] will show very much more vividly over the winter than at the present moment...
...Coste & Bellonte flight; the Gandhi movement; the U. S. Drought; the discovery of Planet X (Pluto); the return of King Carol. I. N. S.-November's election; Coste & Bellonte; South American revolutions; return of King Carol; Italian earthquake. Editor & Publisher carried the survey further, asked editors to imagine what might be the "sweetest" news break of 1931 (barring death and disaster). Some imaginings: Roy Wilson Howard, chairman of Scripps-Howard papers, Paul Patterson, president of Baltimore Sun, Ik Shuman, executive editor of Paul Block newspapers, and others: Affirmation by the Supreme Court of Judge Clark's decision invalidating...