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Farm Relief. The President will not compromise with liberal Congressmen on anything like the equalization feature of the McNary-Haugen Bill. But he will support a large appropriation for extension of the present co-operative marketing system...
...despair, he gave me a subscription to TIME, which I read weekly with conscientious, but sincere, interest. Now at the dinner table I am voluble with the latest gossip- of the Prince of Wales, Henry Ford and Lena Stillman, and I look bored, but not blank, when the McNary-Haugen bill is mentioned. Last week I had just finished reading TIME from red cover to red cover, felt buoyantly well-informed. The doorbell rang, and there was the mailman with another edition of TIME. Oh dear! Yours, till my subscription runs...
...everyone knows, these two bills fought each other to death. The Administration, being convinced that the McNary-Haugen bill was radical & dangerous, fought it to the last ditch where President Coolidge killed it with his veto, last winter (TIME, March...
Will this Administration bill satisfy farmers and legislators who favor the McNary-Haugen bill...
...Professor Charles Austin Beard, historian, formerly of Columbia University, ridiculed President Coolidge's "wearing cowboy breeches and fishing with worms." He predicted an alliance between the South and West as defense against the Eastern capitalistic control of politics. He defended the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill as "an experimental adventure...