Word: pump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once called a "pump-priming" measure, the bill had been given the horrid name of a "poll-priming'' device, because of WTAdministrator Harry Hopkins' pointed comment on the Iowa primary election (see p. 16). Leader Barkley admitting Mr. Hopkins had been indiscreet, nevertheless marshaled his Administration cohorts to defeat every effort to attach penalties, however light, to political use of relief billions. New Mexico's Hatch, a Democrat, and Vermont's Austin, a Republican, each tried to prohibit WPA administrative employes from taking active part in elections. Each was voted down by a close margin...
...Lewis, the Administration's whip, created a minor sensation by crying: "How can we continue the present state without completely exhausting the Treasury? Such a program [of relief] will not only exhaust the Treasury but will exhaust the capacity of the taxpayer to pay further." But the pump-priming debate was soon drowned out by a poll-priming wrangle...
Also into effect last week went Premier Daladier's pump-priming recovery program. On rural electrification, slum clearance, irrigation, new roads and port facilities, $304,000,000 will be spent. The production tax will be modified and free ports for transit trade have been established. Also authorized by decree were defense loans up to $5,500,000 for France's African colonies, to $11,000,000 for French Indo-China. Minister of Colonies Georges Mandel explained these loans will be used toward starting a "systematic Empire defense plan...
WASHINGTON--The Senate tonight added $175,000,000 to the works relief slice of the pending pump-priming bill and voted a $125,000,000 "dole" to the needy after President Roosevelt had warned of a threatened crisis in unemployment this summer and demanded a free hand to combat it. Attacking widespread Senate agitation to ear-mark the $3,247,500,000 recovery-relief fund as a safeguard against its use by administration for political reprisals, the President wrote Sen. Alva Adams, D., Colo., floor manager of the measure, insisting on a flexible appropriation...
Plenty of people like Senator Byrd. House Minority Leader Snell and a whole slew of ladies from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut who descended on Washington last week are convinced that any further so-called pump-priming will be money down the drain. But that Government spending from 1933 helped bring the U. S. at least a temporary recovery few qualified observers deny. Main objection to resumption of spending has been that the Recovery apparently lasts only so long as the spending and the Government cannot spend forever. To a press conference last week. Franklin Roosevelt gave his rebuttal...