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...Governor Meyer, perhaps more than any other man, who shaped President Hoover's general policy of relief???a whole battery of credit clubs to be kept swinging in every direction. Out of Governor Meyer's economic experience and wisdom came the figure?$2,000,000,000?of what was needed to make R. F. C. a real treat to the intangibles of this Depression. His ideas and those of Mr. Baruch run along parallel lines. These two and President Dawes are expected to be the three strong and active men on R. F. C.'s directorate...
...Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Grundy is the man who has gone down to Washington about every tariff bill since the Dingley Bill of 1897. Who knows better than Mr. Grundy why the Pennsylvania delegation in the House caucused unanimously for a special session to deal with farm relief??? and tariff...
...Senators are face to face with a Sphinxlike ballot box. There is a public buildings bill, a bill for increasing the pay of Federal judges, a bill for disposing of Muscle Shoals, bills for future handling of railroad and coal strikes, the French debt settlement, and above all farm relief???all clamoring for consideration. A first-rate legislative jam seems in the making, with the probability that many of these measures will not pass. And although Congressmen are eager to go home, they do not want to return to dissatisfied electorates. Their personal interests are beginning to shriek in their...
...Farm Relief???"For the most part agriculture is successful, eleven staples having risen in value from about $5,300,000,000 two years ago to about $7,000,000,000 for the current year. . . . With his products not selling on a parity with the products of industry, every sound remedy that can be devised should be applied for the relief of the farmer. . . . No complicated scheme of relief, no plan for Government fixing of prices, no resort to the public Treasury will be of any permanent value in establishing agriculture. Simple and direct methods put into operation by the farmer...