Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated farm relief with great energy. (See below...
...several cases the legal relation of corporations, especially public utilities, to the Government was enlarged upon. The Illinois Bell Telephone Co., for example, was granted relief from low rates, after its application for increased rates had not been acted upon by a state board two years after it was made. Again the Court refused several similar actions where the public utility company had not made formal application for higher rates to state authorities. In another case the Court allowed the New York Telephone Co. to include as part of its property entitled to a reasonable return a reserve fund built...
...alike those who have received postals and those who have not. In the next few days, most of them will glory in the air of decay in which they perform the last rites and, between jumping on recalcitrant trunks and stuffing odd laundry cases, will heave the sighs of relief that indicate. "It is all over". One hopes that the return will be solaced by the arts of summer...
...result and act accordingly. Every staunch supporter of the Administration-McKinley, Pepper, Stanfield, Cummins-who has come up for nomination this season has been defeated- four blows at Coolidge prestige. Furthermore it means that Iowa farmers, at least, are aroused because they have not had the kind of farm relief they want-and Congress is likely to judge all farmer sentiment by Iowa, so that the chances of the passage of a farm relief bill before Congress adjourns are greatly increased...
...isolated experimental camp in an uncultivated field a mile from the city. Attracted by the offer of $250, several peons volunteered as well as a few American youths. Buck-private John R. Kissinger unflinchingly watched the mosquitoes' hypodermics charged with fever serum pierce his arm . . . waited ... no infection . . . relief The medicos tried him again . . . waited . . . heavy sickness . . . almost death. Another lad submitted, died a martyr . . . The doctors abandoned camp. They had the proof...