Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bills about pensions, Indian lands, medals, rural mail boxes, corn borers, the Gila River, military camps, monuments, State relief, bridges, salaries...
Candidate Lowden made ready to enter Kansas City in advance of the "crusade" of farmers promised by his friends (see p. 13). The farmers and their insistence were his only hope, for without them-there would be no party plank implicitly rebuking the present Administration for its farm-relief record, and without such a plank Candidate Lowden has said he would not take the nomination...
...subtle opportunist, who exercised his commercial virtuosity to get rich; who "is the only man since Roosevelt to understand the use of calculated indiscretion" in compassing political ends (cf. his purposeful reading of books on crowd psychology, his studied profanity); who last year tandem-hitched the McNary-Haugen farm-relief bill and the McFadden branch-banking and drove them through the Senate with consummate smartness...
...been a so-so session of Congress. President Coolidge congratulated both houses with a warmth which was surprising in view of the lesions Congress had caused in the Administration's program. Congress had far overshot the Coolidge ideas on farm-relief and flood control; overcut the Mellon idea of tax reduction; left stranded the Wilbur "Big Navy"; appropriated some 500 millions beyond the Budget; retained Muscle Shoals instead of disposing of it as Mr. Coolidge urged...
...amount of work done rather than the kind was evidently what President Coolidge had to admire. Reapportionment of popular representation and disposal of the Boulder Dam bill were the gravest omissions. Disagreement on farm-relief and failure to vote at least some of the Big Navy, after Europe had been made to understand the U. S. really needs more ships, were the gravest embarrassments...