Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill to loan drought-stricken husbandmen $60,000,000 for feed and food; sent it to the House (see below...
Half a hundred newsmen jostled their way expectantly into President Hoover' circular office at noon one day last week. Word had spread that the President was thoroughly displeased at Republican mismanagement of his relief programs (for Drought and Depression) in the Senate, that for the third time he would have sharp-stinging things to say.?A pleasant hearth fire crackled in the hushed room as the President lifted a paper from his desk, began to read aloud. His face grew red with feeling. His voice was harsh and annoyed. Excerpts...
...session of the 72nd Congress after March 4. Parliamentary experts, familiar with the Administration's program, listed 13 essential bills Congress must pass in its 70 days. Of these, eleven were appropriation bills to pay Federal running costs through fiscal 1932. The other two were Unemployment Relief and Drought Relief...
First defiance of President Hoover in the Senate last week came on drought relief legislation.* Though the President's drought agents had recommended a $60,000,000 measure last October, the Department of Agriculture later whittled this estimate down to $25,000,000. Over Presidential protest the Senate Committee on Agriculture unanimously approved a bill to loan farmers the full $60,000,000 not only for feed and seed but also for food. Nor could President Hoover count on support from Senate Democrats on this issue because their leader, Arkansas Senator Robinson, dropping harmony, loudly announced for the larger...
...Weather Bureau last week reported that the 1930 drought in the East and Midwest was "the most severe in the climatological history of the U. S.," was able to give no "conclusive or comprehensive" explanation of its causes...