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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farm relief last week actually began its journey from the field of legislation to the husbandman's acres. The Congress, straining and wheezing, passed an administration bill, minus the export debenture plan and President Hoover, signing it with a smile and two pens, called it "The most important measure ever passed by congress in aid of a single industry." It was an end and a beginning...
...bill. President Hoover was openly flouted by those who either honestly believed in this plan or felt that the House, heretofore gagged, should be given a chance to express itself. Speaker Longworth and other leaders had refused to give the House a vote on the debenture plan for two reasons: 1) it would force midwestern Congressmen to go on record on a politically troublesome issue; 2) it would be a backdown by the House on its claim that the Senate had no constitutional authority to originate such a "revenue-raising" plan...
Less than one-third of the 6,500,000 U. S. farmers are now members of joint selling organizations. Success of farm relief now depends almost entirely upon the extent to which the farmers will now co- operate. Many experts believe that more than two-thirds of the farmers must join co-operatives before any appreciable benefit will accrue to husbandry as a whole...
...two voters against the resolution were Senators Thomas Love and Julien Hyer, "Hoovercrats" who helped to turn the State Republican last year. When Senator T. J. Holbrook used the phrase "political nigger lovers" in denouncing Mrs. De Priest's visit to the White House, Senator Love rushed at him savagely, shouting: "Any man who says the 300,000 Texans who voted for Hoover are nigger-lovers has the word LIAR branded across his brow." In Florida, another Negro-subjugating state that voted for Hoover, a resolution was passed, 71 to 13, in the state house, condemning "certain social policies...
...other two medals went to Novelist-Historian Owen Wister, because "America, right or wrong; colorful, adventurous, romantic, blind, heroic, banal, lives and breathes" in his pages: and to Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, for 30 years of able service...