Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Like the Negro porter who was asked to change $10, I am grateful for the compliment. I am sorry that these funds do not exist, for they would be useful for Children's Relief...
...down, for the following reason: "The Prohibition issue which I have objected to having injected into national campaigns was brought to the fore by the Republican party, in order to befuddle the public and lead them away from the real issue of the campaign, an economic issue . . . specifically, farm relief...
...Some immediate relief would come from an amendment to the Volstead Law giving a scientific definition of the alcoholic content of an intoxicating beverage. . . . Each State would then be allowed to fix its own standard of alcoholic content, subject always to the proviso that that standard could not exceed the maximum fixed by the Congress...
...Farm Relief: Nominee Smith stuck to his already-announced plan-the principle of McNary-Haugenism, i.e., "distribution of the cost of dealing with crop surpluses over-the marketed unit of the crop whose producers are benefited by such assistance." He again said: "Only the mechanics remain to be devised." He again promised, if elected, to call in farm experts and have "the mechanics" devised in time for his first message to Congress. (Nominee Hoover had mentioned three methods of farm relief-tariff, waterways, Federal Loan fund...
Capt. William Prothero of the Scythia has a new job. In September he will leave his ship, become relief captain of the three largest Cunarders, Berengaria, Aquitania & Mauretania. The Cunard program calls for heavy duty service with these vessels; they turn around quickly in New York; there has been scarcely any rest period between voyages for their burdened, responsible skippers. Capts. Charles Smith and W. R. D. Irvine broke down on the Berengaria; Captain Sir James Charles recently died on the Aquitania. Hereafter their regular captains will take them for three round trips and then be relieved by Capt. Prothero...