Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House, Speaker Longworth and his fellow Republicans planned the personnel of committees which will have to function until April 15. The Committee on Agriculture (to prepare a farm relief bill) was made up. Because of their increased majority in the next Congress, the Republicans took for themselves 15 instead of 14 seats of the 22 on the Agriculture Committee. The Ways & Means Committee (to prepare the tariff bill) was also set in motion. Incidentally Congressman James A. Frear of Wisconsin, a former member of the Committee ejected four years ago for having supported the late, great Senator La Follette...
...Agriculture Committee will meet on March 27 and is expected to have a farm relief measure ready for Congress to act on as soon as it meets. The Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee are already quietly writing a tariff bill? it will be known as the Smoot-Hawley bill ?without consulting their Democratic colleagues. Because of their majority the Republicans can report the bill and probably get it through the House under a special rule prohibiting amendments. In the Senate, however, where no such rule will apply, the question will be torn wide open and the bill...
Special Session. Further agricultural relief and limited changes in the tariff cannot in justice to our farmers, our labor and our manufacturers be postponed. I shall therefore request a special session of Congress...
...weekly series of races was run. The season began with 20 invited guests and ended with scores of interlopers. A blackamoor in jockey silks doled out refreshments. There were printed racing sheets, from Mr. Geddes' own press. A bugle sounded before each start. Comic relief was provided by steeplechase events in which obstacles were placed on the course to cause realistic jumps and falls. In all there were 800 horses, owned in groups or "stables" by 100 people, among them Dramacritic Alexander Woollcott, Colyumist Heywood Broun, Artist Peter Arno, Ziegfeld Ballerina Claire Luce...
...contents himself with a quieter amusement. It is a chess-wise war game. The board is 20 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, a topographical relief map of an imaginary coast line. There are 20,000 square kilometers and over 4,000 pieces, representing every arm of war. Sixteen levels are used, affecting the "travel" and "range" of the miniature units. The game is played in weekly sessions over a period of months. Five Generals and a Commander-in-Chief play simultaneously on each side. The Commander-in-Chief walks back and forth behind his subordinates, surveying the entire field...