Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator from Washington, returned from Peru where he has functioned for four years as ambassador. Loquacious, onetime Senator Poindexter made remarks: "There are heavy investments of American capital in Peru. ... It is a country of immense natural riches. ... I have some ideas myself as to relief measures for the farmer, but am not prepared just now. . . ." Still in Peru is Mrs. Miles Poindexter, U. S. replica of Margot Asquith, said to have remarked on the occasion of her hus- band's failure to secure re-election in 1922: "Washington voters, like a widely-advertised brand of tires, smile...
...Graft? Gardner Jackson and the Defense Committee had another grievance. Last January, U. S. Communists reported to Moscow that they had raised $500,000 for "the Sacco-Vanzetti relief work." Last week the Defense Committee revealed that it had received only $300 from Communist sources. Where did the rest go? The Defense Committee had some big bills...
Soon Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover will make another tour on the Mississippi Valley to obtain final information concerning flood relief and flood control legislation for submission to Congress...
...will not?was the opinion of Senator Capper of Kansas, publisher of the Topeka Daily Capital and Capper's Weekly (farmers'tabloid), who last week visited President Coolidge at Rapid City. Senator Capper believes that the equalization fee is essential to farm relief, hopes that a compromise bill can be agreed upon 'by the Administration and the McNary-Haugenites...
...Professor Charles Austin Beard, historian, formerly of Columbia University, ridiculed President Coolidge's "wearing cowboy breeches and fishing with worms." He predicted an alliance between the South and West as defense against the Eastern capitalistic control of politics. He defended the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill as "an experimental adventure...