Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bills can always rise again, as long as Congress meets again. There is every indication that the McNary-Haugenites will fight for their bill (or a similar substitute) at the next session of Congress. The Administration, too, announced last week that it would push a new farm relief bill which Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine, Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, Eugene Meyer, head of the Federal Farm Loan Board, and others have been formulating during the summer...
Governor Lennington Small, Illinois: "Illinois is for farm relief, wants it and is going...
...convention discussed three main topics: farm relief, election expenses, flood control. Farm relief brought out the most lively expressions of opinion. Governor John Hammill of Iowa and Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska, indeed, distinctly rippled the placid surface of conference debate. Said Governor Hammill: "The era in which we are living presents a challenge to the men whom the people of this nation have placed in positions of high responsibility. Either they must do what needs to be done'... or they must make way for others who will." (Governor Hammill is a pronounced Lowden man.) Then Governor McMullen said...
...probability, of a system of cooperative marketing fostered by the government under which the farmer may retain his independence and initiative while working out his problems." The Lowden program, Mr. McKelvie observed, "shows how far afield politically minded men will go" when discussing the topic of farm relief...
Special Session. Shortly after the flood waters began to recede, the suggestion was made that Congress should call a special session to consider flood relief. This idea apparently did not,appeal to the President and inasmuch as only the President could put it into effect, prospects for a special session seemed remote. Last week Senators Smoot and Harrison (see TAXATION) joined in a special session call, but the Utah senator seemed primarily and the Mississippi senator considerably interested in the matter of tax reduction rather than in the matter of flood relief. With Mr. Coolidge, as far as is known...