Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farm relief last week actually began its journey from the field of legislation to the husbandman's acres. The Congress, straining and wheezing, passed an administration bill, minus the export debenture plan and President Hoover, signing it with a smile and two pens, called it "The most important measure ever passed by congress in aid of a single industry." It was an end and a beginning...
Less than one-third of the 6,500,000 U. S. farmers are now members of joint selling organizations. Success of farm relief now depends almost entirely upon the extent to which the farmers will now co- operate. Many experts believe that more than two-thirds of the farmers must join co-operatives before any appreciable benefit will accrue to husbandry as a whole...
...products from glutted seasonal markets and hold them in storage pending better prices. In the past such large-scale grain corporations on private capital and under private control have failed. It remains to be seen whether federal cash and supervision can make them successful. Critics of the new farm relief legislation predict that the Federal Farm Board will loan large sums to such corporations which in turn will buy in surplus commodities on a falling price market, be forced to sell them at a still lower price and, in the end, completely exhaust the board's capital...
Last week the Great Question on many a farm throughout the land was: Will there be federal relief for this year's crops? Wheat men, dubious of such relief this season, pricked up their ears at a suggestion from North Dakota's Senator Nye that the U. S. should buy up 50 or 100 million bushels of surplus wheat, ship it to famished China as a gesture of goodwill...
While airplanes strafed the Moroccan tribesmen with bombs and machine guns, the Foreign Legion's district commander, dashing General Freydenberg, went forward with the relief column himself...