Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In your issue of Jan. 9 you give an illuminating review of the various farm relief plans. On most of them you offer brief and intelligent comment, but you present Farmer Campbell's plan without comment, which makes me half afraid that you favor it. The gist of his plan is to industrialize farming and conduct it on a Ford-factory basis. Under his plan, the agricultural land of America would be held by a comparatively few individuals and corporations, and it would be operated by hired labor, just as steel mills and automobile factories are operated...
...from outside the state. For example, 90 per cent of the students at the Harvard business school are from outside the state. She does not believe, for example, that the Salvation Army should invest in tax-exempt real estate here in Massachusetts $1,000,000 given it for the relief of the poor. For that matter, she believes that many so-called benevolent and charitable institutions, thriving on tax-exemption, do more harm than good. Mrs. MacFadden argues in favor of a head tax of $4, which would yield Massachusetts more that its income tax and be far simpler...
...present indications, Governor Smith will be nominated for president by the Democrats at Houston next summer. And after that, if the dam does not break before will come the deluge, a deluge to throw religion into relief, and overflow a hundred volumes of Americana, or Heffliana. Prohibition has been a sufficient bone of contention, but it may readily be seen that man can never be aroused to battle over his right to indulgance or his desire to forbid it, as he can be harried into charging blindly when an ingrained and unreasoning religious prejudice is invoked...
Source Sirs: Will you please refer me to your source for Mr. Thomas Campbell's suggestion on farm relief? TIME for Jan. 9 said they were "released last week." I thought I covered farm subjects in the papers pretty carefully, but evidently I missed your item completely...
...served the United States brilliantly and effectively as a special agent of the State Department in Sweden and Russia, and as chief of the inter-allied missions in Vienna and Paris attached to the Peace Conference in 1919. In 1921 he became attached to the American Relief Administration in Russia where he dealt largely with the authorities in the direction of far reaching relief...