Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover's Christmas could be merry after all because last week he won his legislative fight with Congress, wrung from a reluctant and bickering Senate the bills he wanted for Drought and Unemployment relief (see p. 8). It was late when the measures reached the White House for signing. Only two newscamera-men had remained on the chance of getting a picture. When they were ushered into his office, the President raised his head, smiled broadly, asked: "Well, only two photographers...
House Work Done: The House of Representatives last week: ¶ Passed a bill appropriating $150,000,000 for the Federal Farm Board's stabilization operations; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Adopted a Senate resolution for Drought Relief after cutting its total from $60,000,000 to $30,000,000; later agreed to a $45,000,000 conference report; sent it to the Senate (see p. 8). ¶ Agreed to the $116,000,000 Unemployment Relief conference report; sent it to it to the Senate (see p. 8). ¶ Passed the $213,043,702 Department of Agriculture appropriation bill...
...Agreed to the $45,000,000 Drought Relief conference report; sent the bill to the President...
Still the Congress wrangled, all last week, over the relief bills to be enacted for drought-stricken farmers and the industrial unemployed. The House wanted to lend the farmers $30,000,000 for feed and seed; the Senate wanted to lend them $60,000,000.* The Senate insisted that the farmers be permitted to buy food for themselves as well as their livestock under the loan; the House thought this would be a dole. On the $116.000,000 unemployment-relief bill there was disagreement over: 1) Senator Robinson's amendment taking allotment of sums out of the President...
...Administration for "niggardliness" in its relief plans. Declared Senator Walsh: "There are worse misfortunes tHan heavy taxes. One is the failure of the Government to remove the spectre of starvation and misery and idleness and unrest." Another provocation was the Senate's preference for a $60,000,000 drought relief program over the administration...