Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...settlement, Muscle Shoals leasing or sale, railroad consolidation, government shipping business, national waterways and the Great Lakes dispute (TIME, Nov. 22), action on Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report on the Philippines (see p. 8), Lausanne Treaty, ratification or rejection of the Berenger-Mellon French debt pact, farm relief, World Court (an issue which is now fast fading), use of the Treasury surplus for income tax reduction...
...commission be authorized to fix and guarantee minimum prices on the wheat, corn, cotton, sugar crops and on the production of wool and butter. He suggested that his commission be composed of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, and four other members appointed by the President. Other farm relief plans have sought to take care of the crop surplus by government marketing aid, but Mr. Meredith's price-fixing scheme aims to eliminate the surplus by insuring a balanced production. Said he: "By raising and lowering the prices of these crops from year to year...
...Thereafter General Chamorro, having made up his mind that the U. S. would not recognize him as President, resigned that office, which he had held by force, and Señor Diaz was elected. Instant Recognition. U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg assumedly heaved a sigh of relief at the turn of Nicaraguan affairs, last week, for he immediately extended recognition. President Diaz, tactful, was moved in a burst of gratitude to the U. S. to sanction the long mooted sale of 51% of the stock of the Nicaragua National Bank to the Guarantee Trust Co. of Manhattan...
...after the announcement of Secretary Mellon's proposal, the White House Spokesman issued a plea for non-partisan consideration of tax relief, and said that, after consideration, he was inclined to be in favor of the Mellon plan...
Double-Cross. Following these wholesale arrests, the fruit of a year and more of sleuthing by the French police, the Spanish Government expressed its gratitude and its relief at this nipping of the plot upon French soil...