Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great was the tension in the Senate last week as that body approached a vote on the export debenture feature of its farm relief bill. Informal polls showed an almost even balance of sentiment for and against the proposal to allow, to farm surplus exporters, bounties equal to one-half the tariff rates on their commodities. There were 47 Senators opposed to debentures, 46 Senators in favor, one Senator undecided, one Senator sick and not yet sworn in. With the outcome so uncertain, Vice President Charles Curtis braced him self for the emergency of having to vote to break...
...capital the more realistic and troublesome problem of last year's wheat crop came forward and was met with a temporary solution. The 1928 crop was a bumper, close to 900 million bushels. On March 1, there still remained 355,563,000 bushels undisposed of, bulging in elevators and farm bins. It was the largest surplus since 1919, To make matters worse, the 1929 crop promises to surpass 1928's to run well above the 900 million bushel mark...
...Debated farm relief...
Democratic policy is now left to the Democratic Senators who are expected to perform a political miracle equal to Mr. Raskob's financial one by developing harmonious issues as they debate their way through the questions before the Congress. At present, intraparty schisms on prohibition, power, taxation, tariff, farm relief, are nowhere more deep and durable than on the left-hand side of the U. S. Senate chamber...
...last week from his stock farm at Maracay, President Gomez unexpectedly wired his Congress: "I cannot accept the high charge...