Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ankle-high corn, forgot mortgages and vetoes, cheered. Townspeople gathered at railroad stations; in their hands were hats and flowers; in their hearts were peace and goodwill. Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, long an insurgent, exclaimed, "We will not go into past regrets." Representative Charles A. Christopherson, farm-relief advocate, announced that all doubt concerning a third term had been swept away. The President made no speeches, no promises, receded not an inch from the posi-tion he took in vetoing the McNary-Haugen farm-relief bill (TIME, March 7). But the honor of his presence, the potency...
...Louisiana, official evidence that the main flood is over was furnished by the resignation of onetime Governor John M. Parker as Relief Director. "The life-saving stage of the flood is over and my share of the task is done," he said. He added: "I feel it my duty to pay tribute to those whose work has been of untold value to the Mississippi Valley and especially to Herbert Hoover whose powers of organization, engineering and deep interest in humanity have again been manifested in saving more life and property than ever before in his memorable career...
...While Administration friends cried "Determined!" and Administration foes cried "Stubborn!" President Coolidge once more refused to call, now or later, a special "flood relief session" of Congress...
...White House office came Herbert C. Hoover on a trip from the flood district. From the White House came a letter to Lewis E. Pierson, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, requesting further aid from that organization in raising some millions of dollars for flood relief work...
After a three-day session, the Conference disbanded, after the adoption of resolutions calling on the Federal Government to supply immediate flood relief and requesting congressional and presidential action on the prevention of further floods. It was expected that the resolutions would offer some suggestions as to flood prevention, but the committee on resolutions was apparently so divided between adherents of levees, reservoirs, reforesting, spillways and various combinations of these methods that no specific resolutions were adopted...