Word: farms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge wrote 13 vetoes during the first session of the Seventieth Congress. He sent eight vetoes "up the hill" in one day last fortnight. His thirteenth (this session) was affixed last week to the McNary-Haugen Farm relief measure (see FARMERS). Senator McNary and Representative Haugen were called to the White House and told in advance that their work was disapproved because of the "equalization...
...Sustained the President's veto of the Surplus Control Act (farm relief) by 31 votes...
...proposed to set up a Federal fund from which cooperative associations of farmers could borrow money to help them market their products. That was all right with President Coolidge. S. 3555 proposed a Federal farm board to administer the fund. That was all right with President Coolidge. S. 3555 proposed that when the producers of a given commodity had produced more of that commodity than they could market in an "orderly" fashion, or more than they were willing to try to market with the aid of the loan fund only, that an "equalization fee" should be levied upon each unit...
...gloomy room, the kitchen of a mining cottage in Salt Lake City where his father worked. When he was nine, Bill Haywood was sent to work digging coal; this he disliked, so a few years later he was bound out to a farmer. Bill Haywood ran away from the farm, did some prospecting, became a Socialist. In 1899, when the Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, striking began, he was chairman of the executive committee of the Western Federation of Miners. Seven years later he was the defendant in a trial that made his name famous...
...Wealth now amounts to $320,000,000,000; calculated economists of Stone & Webster and Blodget, investment bankers. Since 1890 population has increased from 62,000,000 to 117,000,000; manufactures $9,372,379,000 to $62,700,000,000; farm products $2,460,000,000 to $19,700,000,000; exports $850,000,000 to $4,870,000,000; bank deposits $4,060,000,000 to $48,880,000,000. In 1890 the U. S. owed foreign investors and institutions $600,000,000; now they...