Word: haugen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handed the first pen to Chairman McNary of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and the second to Chairman Haugen of the House Committee on Agriculture who, with many another, were ranked behind him for the ceremony. "Now, all still for just a minute. . . . Look this way, Mr. President! Once more now!" cried the newscamera...
Iowa's Dickinson, erstwhile staunch Hooverite, derided the bill as "one of the worst, from an agricultural standpoint, ever presented to the House." His Iowa colleague, Representative Ramseyer, echoed his sentiments, denounced items in the bill as "indefensible." Chairman Haugen of the Agricultural Committee grew more grumpy than usual over the lumber and shingles duty and the failure of the measure to restrict vegetable oils...
...House, Iowa's Representative Gilbert N. Haugen, one end of McNary- Haugenism, sulked pettishly. Wedded to the equalization fee, he allowed Illinois' Thomas S. Williams to guide the hearings, stamp the bill with the Williams political trademark. In the Senate, Oregon's McNary, blithe and chipper despite defeat after defeat, exuded optimism...
...Black Hills. 1927 started off with President Coolidge's vehement veto and denunciation of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill...
Heflin, Klu Klux Klan, free silver, William Jennings Bryan, prohibition, woman suffrage, McNary-Haugen farm relief may all be classed as attempts at reform. They have shared in common: lofty purpose, great zeal, and not a little oratory. Senator Oscar W. Underwood was opposed to each and every one of them. He saw something dangerous in them all. He felt that their purposes were not worth their methods. He was a complete Jeffersonian, and a quiet one at that...