Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personal experience with all sides of the Farm Relief and the St. Lawrence Waterway situations...
...subscriber since 1923 at Panama, C. Z. I have always abstained from writing letters that more or less annoy you besides taking up space in your glorious magazine. But the culmination of rage sizzles for expression within me. On p. 14, Oct. 1, issue in third column, under caption "Relief" appears: 1,200 tons of food 3,490 tons of misc. supplies 10 days provisions for 100,000 people, etc. All to be distributed to the poor devils, victims of the tremendous hurricane in Porto Rico. I can imagine the anxiety of those people expecting that colossal help...
...furrow, into laboratory, down mine shaft, into great administrative and engineering projects. . . . "His university is Leland Stanford, but his true Alma Mater is the map of the world. . . . "A vote for Hoover is a vote for belching smokestacks, flaring furnaces, clanging hammers, busy looms, honest and permanent agricultural relief - a vote for peak production, for steady employment, for the song of the riveter, for more automobiles - a vote for better government, for sounder business practice, for full time and fuller pay envelopes - a vote for impartial legislation, for the integrity of the Constitution, for continued equality before opportunity...
...parallel vagueness about the Equalization Fee, which he avoided naming by name in his farm relief speech at Omaha. Finally, resorting to Hearstlike capital letters, they said: "Throughout this campaign the Scripps-Howard newspapers have believed WITH Hoover some of the time. We have believed IN him all of the time. . . . What the World's candidate says as to power ? or any other subject ? is right per se and must be accepted by the World as holy writ...
Some of us favor national prohibition and some oppose it. We think that differences of opinion on this question should not be allowed to overshadow other important matters, such as the establishment of friendly relations with other countries including Latin America; the protection of national waterpower; and the relief of agricultural depression, as to which governor Smith's desire for action contrasts sharply with the eight years' inactivity of the administration to which his opponent has belonged...