Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, before leaving New Orleans after his ninth tour of the Mississippi flood areas, said: "I will not say one word about politics as long as I am engaged in flood relief work. . . . Every crevasse in the Mississippi valley is being closed . . . and by Dec. 1, I expect, the work will be completed. The War Department is going ahead with the work. ... I feel certain the money to pay for it will be found...
Formulate a tax reduction, and a flood relief, and a naval building program...
...Reduction & Flood Relief. These are thought of together because what the Government plans to pay out in the Mississippi Valley it must plan to take in from the whole country. The President believes that taxes can be reduced if flood relief is approached with proper economy...
...Farm Relief. The President will not compromise with liberal Congressmen on anything like the equalization feature of the McNary-Haugen Bill. But he will support a large appropriation for extension of the present co-operative marketing system...
...Aveling, Reader in Psychology at the University of London, last week offered corrections to the popular notion about laughter, its causes and significance. "The really happy man," he said, "never laughs-or seldom-though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension-and the happy are not overstrung...