Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drought, washed slowly out of the news by widespread rains, gave President Hoover last week a chance to bring from California to Washington his good friend Henry Mauris Robinson, put him to work for the Government. Mr. Robinson, board chairman of First National Bank of Los Angeles, has been "mentioned" for more different jobs under the Hoover Administration than any other friend of the President. He was violently speculated upon for almost every post in the Cabinet before inauguration. Each time President Hoover named a new commission, Mr. Robinson's name bobbed up in White House gossip...
...Last week President Hoover met governors and representatives from drought afflicted states, told them what the U. S. could and would do by way of relief (see p. 18). He postponed his vacation "a month...
...White House last week John Farmer of the Midwest looked for help from the drought. After months of dry, parching weather 270,000 families of him and his like were so "bad off" that the President of the U. S. had taken notice and was trying to do something...
Proposals. The President opened the conference in the Cabinet room. For three hours they talked. Most of the governors had come to Washington with the idea of securing Federal funds for drought relief. Governor Leslie wanted to borrow a million dollars from the Federal Reserve bank. Senator Robsion proposed that the U. S. underwrite farm tax payments in Kentucky. Governor Cooper asked for a million from any source he could get it. But President Hoover had no Federal cash to give the states. He explained that the Red Cross had made $5,000,000 available for emergency suffering, that...
Birthday. Herbert Clark Hoover. Age: 56. Date: Aug. 10. Celebration: pondering the Nation's drought at his Rapidan Camp...