Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Futilely debated the Dawes-McNary-Haugen farm relief bill all week, without getting to a vote, although the vote was always imminent...
...most important thing about the farm relief proposals was nevertheless the parliamentary situation. The House had refused to pass the Haugen farm relief bill (TIME, May 31, THE CONGRESS) by vote of 212 to 167. It had previously passed a bill supported by the Administration creating a division of co-operative marketing in the Department of Agriculture, a bill designed to aid farmers in forming and operating co-operative enterprises. In the Senate with an election coming on, and with the dissatisfaction registered by the farmers two weeks ago by the nomination of onetime Senator Brookhart and the defeat...
...Dawes is most likely to be a candidate* in 1928. This has made the Vice President some curious friends. One of them is Mr. Brookhart, who was defeated in 1924 because he denounced Mr. Dawes as part of the Republican ticket. Now Mr. Brookhart is quoting Dawes on farm relief in Iowa. Another is Senator Watson of Indiana. Senator Fess of Ohio, hoary onetime college president, launched a bitter attack on "this Dawes-McNary-Haugen plan...
While the echoes of the incident were still resounding in the press, Mr. Brookhart paid a visit to his old stamping ground, Washington, to which he hopes to return next March. He was there, he said, in the interest of farm relief legislation. Availing himself of the privilege of a former Senator, he went into the Senate Chamber, was cordially greeted. He got to talking in one corner with Senators Walsh, Caraway, and Jones (of New Mexico), all Democrats, while Senator Kendrick of Wyoming was making a speech. Something very amusing must have passed among the four, for Senator Caraway...
...more than an hour sopping but irrepressible plebeians wandered up and down the sidewalks of Pall Mall commenting audibly upon the personal appearance and regalia of helplessly belimousined princes,* peers, ambassadors, dowagers and débutantes. Finally at 8:30 p.m. the gates of Buckingham swung open. Exhaling sighs of relief, nearly 1,000 guests stepped through the Palace door, prepared to genuflect...