Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Argentina. . . ." Leaving the President's office, issuing his statement to the press, posing for photographers, Senator Capper was not an impressive figure. Nevertheless his words started a visible commotion in the grain world. Next day, the mild vagueness of President Hoover's message to Congress on farm relief heightened the unrest. Wheat prices dropped 4? per bushel...
...spirit of the state infuse Sculptor Lee Lawrie's decorations. There are bison in bas-relief with inscriptions translated from Indian ritual. The maize plant replaces the classical acanthus. There are friezes of pioneers and covered wagons and on the pinnacle of the tower will shortly stride the colossal image of a sower. In addition to this local legend are figures and inscriptions symbolizing great government. From various corners, growing architecturally out of the walls, the austere faces of great lawgivers survey the prairies-Hammurabi, Moses, Pharaoh, Solon, Solomon, the Caesars, Charlemagne, Napoleon. No carven motto is more obvious...
Reaction to farm relief: In Nodaway County, Mo., President Hoover owns an 80-acre farm, valued by the board of equalization at $85 per acre. Said a board member: "With farm relief in sight, the President's farm ought to be more valuable." Its valuation was then moved up to $125 per acre...
Objection is made to this system of relief on the ground that the farmer in the cooperative association risks a loss, whereas the farmer who stays out profits by higher prices gained through the association's activities but risks no loss...
...countries in the world [see p. n]. . . . We have the word of those in authority in the neighboring Republic that there are to be certain measures introduced at a special session of Congress. An important measure, we are led to believe, is a measure relating to farm relief. Another measure relates to certain limited adjustments of the tariff; I think that is the expression which has been officially used. . . . "I say that, with the knowledge that we have before us at the present time, had we done what honorable gentlemen opposite wish us to do, raised the tariff, we would...