Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted against reciprocal tariffs, the Court bill, Reorganization, the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Moratorium, permanent CCC, Wages-&-Hours, AAA II, both the 1937 and 1938 Relief bills. He explains his opposition mostly on grounds of economy, but he voted to override the President's veto of the 1936 bonus bill, the biggest Treasury raid in Congressional history. His fellow Republicans value him not as a legislator but as an oratorical shock trooper. Imposing, hawk-nosed, witty, a voluptuous lover of words, Congressman Short is willing to talk on almost anything, sometimes does so memorably...
Observant members of Pierson College have noticed with somewhat a sense of relief the removal of a Harvard seal which withstood the hostile gaze of faithful Elis for many a lonely month...
...brought the second AAA to the Senate floor this year. In his recent campaign he sometimes blamed the bill on the New Deal, sometimes claimed credit for it. Last week, with cotton prices tumbling under a bumper August carryover of 13,400,000 bales and no increased AAA relief in sight, Cotton Ed set his weather-vane for good...
...last week sold at 5? compared to 65? a year ago. The crisis in cotton, where compulsory marketing has been imposed, was so grave that Oklahoma's Thomas, a faithful New Dealer, reported last week that cotton farmers in his State were deserting their land to go on Relief...
...having obtained from Adolf Hitler some such two-man peace pledge as Mr. Chamberlain got. It was this document, not the four-power pact dismembering Czechoslovakia, which the British Prime Minister proudly waved when he landed at Heston Airport, and at which monster British crowds went berserk with relief...