Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated farm relief; voted 47 to 44 to retain the export debenture plan in the bill (see below...
Through the Senate last week ill winds whined and whistled for the Hoover administration. Consideration of the farm relief bill drew to a close. The Senate's Republican Leader, Senator Watson of Indiana, appeared on the floor in mourning. "When I go to a funeral, I dress for it," he explained with a liverish smile...
Twofold were Herbert Hoover's promises to U. S. farmers in the 1928 campaign. One was relief by means of a new Federal agency to assist in crop marketing. The other was relief by means of increased tariff rates on agricultural commodities, to protect the U. S. husbandman from foreign competition, to put him on a parity with U. S. industry...
...strike, like an army, moves on its stomach. Food became the crux of the textile strikes in North Carolina last week. Supplies for strikers were dwindling. Relief funds dribbled in slowly. A war of attrition moved into its sixth week...
...Hindenburg has been a martyr to rheumatic swelling in his knees. Doctors and masseurs bandaged and rubbed, but without success. Willy Sachs, famed Berlin mesmerist, was summoned at a cost of $25 per visit. After Willy Sachs had glared 15 times ($375) at the presidential joints without bringing relief, President von Hindenburg lost hope...