Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With what relief I read in your last issue [Dec. 5] that Sir Basil Zaharoff has burned his diary! To me, of course it could make no difference, but I know so many to whom it could...
...distress a less determined man, for besides him the Senate numbers just 48 Republicans (nominally) and 47 Democrats. But Senator Shipstead can tell a Progressive hawk from a Republican handsaw. He signed up with four of the only-nominal Republicans?Nye, Frazier, Elaine, LaFollette?to demand action on farm relief, Federal injunctions and Latin American policies...
...Corporation, chartered in Delaware;! a holding company to find the market and sell $1,000,000 worth of guaranty stock in- 2) The Vermont Flood Credit Corporation, chartered in Vermont. Vermonters will be asked to take up $250,000 of the stock; outsiders $750,000. Vermont bankers will make relief loans to flood victims, accepting character to supplement collateral. If there are losses on the loans, the V. F. C. Corp. will shoulder 50%. Most of the V. F. C. Corp's directors are to be Vermonters and though the Corporation is designed to live only one year...
...real power is therefore in the hands of the radical farm bloc, who will be in a position to force through drastic legislation, such as farm relief and the curtailment of judicial favor to issue injunctions in labor disputes...
...politics has passed, and taken with it the demagogue. Certainly in this country the laborers riding in cars produced by the most pronounced capitalism are too prosperous to cry out against Wall Street. The words Republican or Democrat are no longer clannish distinctions because the differences over farm relief, ship building, and the tariff, little interest the unaffected majority. Politics has yielded place as the prime subject for discussion. Even the irregularities of the Harding administration aroused little feeling, and few demands for disclosures. The public attitude in its present dangerous complacency quite belies the state of democracy...