Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matters were farm relief-which might once have been postponed until autumn on the excuse of insufficient time-and rivers-and-harbors appropriations- which involved major issues as well as a bag full of self-ingratiating tricks by scores of politicians...
...Senate finally got farm relief out of the way (see FARMERS), only to see rivers-and-harbors swell to proportions more formidable than ever. The bill provided approximately a $50,000,000 mass of miscellaneous moneys for dredging creeks, bayous, inlets in many states; building bridges; buying canals; and most important of all, for deepening the Illinois River near Chicago to let lake steamers pass down to the Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico. The language of the bill had the effect of legalizing previous diversions of Great Lakes water by Chicago through its drainage canal out of Lake Michigan...
...play in which a young girl married to a cripple and needing sexual relief ran off with a lusty sailor. (Port o' London...
...Administration. The House defeated (TIME, May 31) the Haugen bill advanced by the farm bloc for raising farm prices by buying up the surpluses of the major crops. In the Senate this second bill was proposed as an amendment to the first, and the whole program of farm relief of any kind was threatened, since neither Senate, House nor President was deemed willing to accept the present bill...
...upon its feet by carrying out the recommendations of the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.). The Government's offer of a ?3,000,000 ($15,000,000) coal subsidy was still open. It might be better, however, to expend that sum for the relief of miners thrown out of work by readjustments in the industry. If this program were not at once put into operation and mining resumed, Britain's foreign coal competitors would succeed disastrously in capturing and holding British markets...