Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farm relief was the only other plank in the least vexing or important. This was handled by permitting T. E. Cushman of the American Farm Bureau Federation to join the agricultural subcommittee. Notable were omission of any attack upon the protective tariff and an implied promise to enforce the 15th Amendment (votes for Negroes). The latter, coming from the pen of Carter Glass of Virginia, was accepted as conventional flub...
That meant, chiefly, that the Smith Democracy stood for law enforcement, with special mention of the Eighteenth Amendment, and for some form of Agricultural relief legislation...
...greater share of the money Mr. Hoover sent consisted of the residue of the Belgian relief fund, which by the will of the donors already belonged to the Belgian people...
...Nobile safe, Pilot Lundborg attempted a second relief flight. His Fokker crashed on the ice, overturned. Six castaways, Italian and Swedish, awaited rescue...
GLORIOUS BETSY (Dolores Costello and Conrad Nagel), STREET ANGEL (Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell), ACROSS TO SINGAPORE (Joan Crawford and Ramon Novarro, also Ernest Torrence for relief work...