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...figures: a $4,435,029,732 expenditure for the current fiscal year ending June 30; a $4,119,230.649 expenditure for the next fiscal year; $315,799,083 saving to avert a tax increase. The President explained that this year's heavy expenditures were due to emergency outlays for Drought, veterans, Unemployment, Farm Relief. Meanwhile the 1931 deficit passed the $800,000,000 mark...
...first time this year President Hoover & friends motored to the Rapidan camp for the weekend. Gone were the effects of last Autumn's Drought. The President caught the limit of 20 trout. Driving back to Washington his motor was stalled for 40 min. in a Sunday traffic jam over the Potomac bridge. Motorists greeted him with amused cheers and applause. When an old Ford, with an old Negro in it and a potato plugging the gas tank, stalled beside the way, the President smiled...
...months New York City's 6,930,446 citizens have been living under the threat of an acute water famine this summer. The 1930 Drought followed by a mild winter of little snow has halved the normal supply to carry the city through the year. Every little rainfall this spring in the vast Hudson River watershed has made welcome news in the metropolitan Press. Public officials have issued warning after warning. Campaigns (welcomed by plumbers) to repair all leaky faucets have been pressed. Citizens caught sprinkling their lawns or washing down their front sidewalks were liable to arrest. Looming...
This subject (since the American Red Cross had refused succor [TIME, Dec. 10, 1928], and since the U. S. now has its own drought-hunger problems) has become taboo in despatches. Nevertheless 8,000,000 Chinese have starved to death in the present Great Famine (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928 et seq.) and 1,000,000 more soon will starve to death, the China Famine Relief (Manhattan) estimates...
What made President Hoover feel good last week about the Drought and the Red Cross was the report he received from Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, just back from an inspection trip. The President did the extraordinary thing of turning his office over to Secretary Hyde to address the Press thus: "Those Drought relief loans have reached the spot. . . . You can see new garden fences. . . . There is a very much more hopeful attitude all through the country. ... I didn't find a single criticism. ... I heard nothing of human suffering...