Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deserters. First to square off at the President's farm program was florid, blinking Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa. A vociferous champion of radical farm measures, Senator Brookhart had pleaded the Hoover cause in 200 stump speeches last autumn. He had shouted to rural audiences that the Republican candidate was "progressive" on farm legislation. "Progressive" in those days meant much more than it does...
...April 1, the fiscal year was three-quarters over. In that nine-month period the Treasury had collected $2,137,178,647 which was some 60 millions more than for the same period last year. For the first time, the March tax payments showed personal receipts ahead of those from corporations...
...There are two ways in which the commission can proceed further. The first is for each delegation to hold up the concessions it is prepared to make until the last minute, seeking in return to obtain other advantages for value received...
Concession on Land. When Herbert Hoover went to Belgium in 1915 as Commissioner for Relief, he found Hugh Gibson as First Secretary of the American legation in Brussels and the two men soon became closest friends. During 1918-19, Mr. Gibson was detailed by the State Department for special and extraordinary duty under Mr. Hoover, then Director General of Relief. So intimate are President and Ambassador today that Mr. Gibson dared, two days after his naval speech last week, to pledge the U. S. to a most vital concession with respect to land armaments in a second blue-bolt speech...
...these principles, for which we stood during the first reading [of the draft convention], we still believe; nevertheless, as I indicated the other day, if we are to be able to join in a common draft, it will be necessary for concessions to be made not only on the part of one but on the part of every delegation here present...