Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have called this special session of Congress to redeem two pledges given in the last election-farm relief and limited tariff revision...
...Farm relief through a Federal Farm Board with "adequate working capital" to reorganize marketing, to assist cooperatives to handle surplus crops...
...hours were required for the 71st Congress formally to get seated in the capitol last week and prepare itself for work. Called by President Hoover because Idaho's Senator Borah induced him during the presidential campaign to promise quick legislative action on farm relief and tariff revision, the session, an "extraordinary" one, was to prove a testing ground of the President's potency as a political leader...
...fanner gets no more because, ambitious, he grows too much, puts it up for sale. With all farmers doing this, a surplus is created, depressing prices. The farmer markets his goods individually, thus entrenching a sloppy fluctuating marketing system. Congress is now called to remedy this situation, to provide "relief." The remedy as contained in the House farm bill: A new Federal Board with $500,000,000 in credits. Farm producers would join in cooperative associations to which the Federal Board would loan money at 4%. With this money the cooperatives would buy and hold enough of the crop...
Coach Davidson will send F. O. White '32 to the mound, saving Phineas Peb '32 for the role of relief pitcher. Ronald Fincke '32 will start behind the ball with J. P. Sachlon '32 at the initial sack, but they will probably change positions during the game. Charles Derans '32, Davidson's star twirler, is ineligible at present because of scholastic difficulties...