Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farm Relief. The McNary-Haugen bill (TIME, Feb. 14), for three years a thorn in the side of Congress, was put through both houses by a defiant farm bloc which crushed the Administration cohorts...
...maladies. Senator Reed would have better execution of the existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over the land like the lice of Egypt." For the same reason that he fought the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, he opposed the McNarv-Haugen farm relief bill. Senator Reed's other Jeffersonian axiom is that the U. S. should not meddle in the affairs of Europe...
...President vetoed the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. Telegrams swarmed into the White House-most of them congratulated the President; no one threatened to assassinate him. Meanwhile, on a horse in San Marcos Desert Camp, Ariz., sat Frank O. Lowden, farmers' friend and presidential aspirant. Said he: "There is nothing to be said at this time." Others were not so reticent. Governor Hammill of Iowa demanded that the next President be "in sympathy" with agriculture. Sixty-one Iowa legislators petitioned Mr. Lowden to be a candidate. Rabid farm organizations suggested a boycott on Eastern manufactured products. The East, complacent...
...usual, the President and his aids were on hand, and legislators aplenty. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis of professional baseball, President E. H. H. Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange, General Pershing and notable sundries provided the lay relief which is necessary to save a Gridiron dinner from becoming mere facetious shop talk among mutually bored familiars...
...intimate personal relationship with their students will count for more than any other safeguard. The work of assistants must continue to improve. The technique of course lecturing and examination will have to be overhauled and adjusted and readjusted. General examiners must cudgel their brains and harden their hearts. The relief to the teaching force, though it should ultimately be very great, may for a time be considered smaller than is generally expected