Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rejected (43-37) a motion of North Dakota's Nye discharging the Immigration Committee from considering a resolution to postpone National Origins. ¶ Voted $150,000,000 for expenditures under farm relief bill...
...Adopted (48-37) the conference report on the Census & Reapportionment bill. ¶ Rejected a resolution by Idaho's Borah to instruct the finance committee to limit tariff revision to the agricultural schedules. ¶ Rejected (46-43) the Debentureless conference report on Farm Relief; later adopted...
...Voted (250-113) against the Debenture provision in the Farm Relief bill; later adopted viva voce the conference report on this measure. The bill went to the President for signature (see p. 11). ¶ Debated Prohibition killings...
...Voted $150,000,000 for expenditures under farm relief bill...
...With electric fans out of commission. Senators puffed, perspired, languished in linens. Leader Watson, clad in a light grey suit, wearing white silk socks and blancoed shoes, mopped his head with a handkerchief and wearily remarked: "I always try to be good natured." The Senate's behavior on Farm Relief (see p. 13) reflected small, if any, credit upon the Watson leadership. Twice had he failed to stem the Debenture Plan tide in the Senate, finally leaving it to President Hoover to interpose his own political authority to straighten out the legislative mess. President Hoover had wanted a suspension...