Word: haugenism
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...President received from Congress the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, discussed it with his Cabinet, read it, pondered long-thereon...
...Passed, 214 to 178, the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill (see p. 10). (Bill went to the President...
...three-year-old groan of the sick farmer. That drone was the work of militant farm organizations, skillful lobbyists, a group of Senators and Representatives from the West and South who have convinced majorities in Congress that the proper medicine for the sick farmer is the McNary-Haugen bill (TIME, Feb. 14). Many who favor this cure say it is bitter; perhaps it is unconstitutional. President Coolidge, though he may not want to, must decide whether this cure is to be administered. Here is how it came to his hands. The Senate, fortnight ago, passed the McNary-Haugen bill...
They had been arguing over the McNary-Haugen farm bill. Speaker Longworth and Representative Hudspeth of Texas separated them. Mighty though their swings had been, not a fist found its target. The heavyweight championship battle of the House was a maudlin, scoreless...
...Senate- ¶ Passed, 47 to 39, the McNary-Haugen bill, creating a Federal Farm Board equipped with $250,000,000 to buy up surplus crops (TIME, Feb. 14). Only one New England Senator, Arthur R. Gould of Maine, voted for the bill. Hostile Senators vainly denounced the McNary-Haugen experiment as unconstitutional, price-fixing, bloc legislation. (Bill went to the House, where passage seemed certain...