Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chose the Liberty Bell as a Party symbol. It then set about organization. The men whom it chose were the best professionals in the field. A drive was set up for a campaign fund of some $3,000,000-. Henry L. Rosenfelt, formerly a director of the Jewish War Relief, was made Financial Director, with
...headquarters at Washington. Alexander Kahn, formerly Chairman of the People's Relief Committee which raised $8,000,000 for War sufferers, was given charge in Manhattan and announced almost immediately that he had $500,000 pledged at $1 at head from the United Hebrew trades. Donald Richberg, go-getting Chicago lawyer, was given the business of putting LaFollette's name on the ballots in every State. Herman L. Ekern, Attorney General of Wisconsin, who was made General Director of LaFollette finances, said this was to be a "cash-and-carry . . . pay-as-you-go campaign." It was intimated...
...prices. It means more money in the pockets of our farmers. It is a worse blow to the LaFollette ticket than any political maneuver which could be engineered by Republicans or Democrats. It vindicates those members of the Administration who said: "We will give you farmers what financially sound relief can be given through better credit. The law of supply and demand will eventually give you real relief−and no other...
...reduce the income-tax rate, not denying relief to a rich man because he is rich, but not forgetting the needs and responsibilities of the poor...
Tariff. "The best way to get relief from the high costs of living is to scrap the vicious Fordney-McCumber Tariff Bill the Republicans put over. I hope to see a general reduction of all taxes...