Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of proposals which, if adopted, would be a long step towards the abandonment of our American system and a surrender to the destructive operation of governmental conduct of commercial business. Because the country is faced with difficulty and doubt over certain national problems - that is,« prohibition, farm relief and elec trical power - our opponents propose that we must thrust government a long way into the businesses which give rise to these problems. In effect they abandon the tenets of their own party and turn to State socialism. . . . We are confronted with a huge program of government in business...
...paramount issue. Senator Borah, one of Hooverism's most vigorous campaigners, was forced to admit, "I disagree with Mr! Hoover on the power question. If that were the only issue in this campaign. I could not support him." Senator Borah said the paramount issues were Prohibition and Farm Relief, of a different brand than Smith's. He did not "bolt." Neither did Senator Johnson, loud-spoken champion of a Federal water and power supply for Los Angeles...
...platforms are more so than the Socialist--when in the next sentence you admit a "baffling indistinction" between the major parties? In the program of the Socialist Party, there is explained an objective and material attitude, which recommends enforcement of freedom of speech, press, and assembly, and definite unemployment relief and labor legislation. The platform may be wrong on some specific points; but it tackles real issues squarely, and a sweeping condemnation cannot be scientifically made...
...Thomas went on to discuss prohibition, farm relief, water power, and control of other public utilities. He then pictured graphically the Democratic politicians as being members of a party for which there was no hope of reform...
Socialist members of the Chamber's Finance Committee fairly screamed objections to the budgeted military, naval and air expenditure of six billion eight hundred million francs ($265,000,000) during 1929. They thought that at least one of the billions ought to be spent on measures of social relief. Particularly did they object to an allotment of 150,000,000 francs ($5,850,000) for the construction of fortifications along the frontier of disarmed Germany...