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...return herewith without my approval House Bill No. 10203, entitled 'An act to enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to make a special distribution of seeds in the drought-stricken counties of Texas. . . .' "I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general Government ought to be ex tended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Riot of Oratory | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...proposition, with a drop of 600,000 additional persons, is based on continued recovery and assumes a good agricultural year, that will make drought expenses unnecessary. The proposal provides not only for a drop of 600.000 in the rolls but at the same time provides for a gradual reduction in the monthly cost per man; it assumes that we will get more money out of sponsors" [i. e., local governments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: 600,000 Drop? | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Rancher Wichman believes the drought era is over, plans to build up his new flock of sheep to 30,000. Son of a Honolulu sugar and cattle man, he fought in the French artillery after college, returned to San Francisco to buy a New York Stock Exchange seat, which he sold before Depression, retiring to Hawaii. Now he is returning to the mainland to educate his three sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ranch Swap | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...this lassitude was that after more or less keeping pace with consumption from 1933 through 1935 the production of cocoa in West Africa began to fall off relatively last year. On the British Gold Coast, whose Accra beans make up the largest proportion of the crop, an early season drought deprived trees of needed moisture. Cocoa figures are notoriously hard to get but when harvest time came on the Gold Coast in October, crop estimate for that area dropped from 260,000 ton to 235,000. In Brazil, whose bahia crop is the world's second largest, plantations were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hot Cocoa | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...Transferring 250,000 drought relief cases to the Resettlement Administration. This is a half-saving since WPA paid them about $40 and RA can pay them only about $20 a month. However RA has only $14,000,000 of its $85,000,000 appropriation left, will also need a new appropriation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Still No Starving | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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