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...months - come to the White House for a long stay. A four-room nursery suite was ready for them on the top floor. ¶ A bride & groom were entertained at White House luncheon - Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays and the onetime Mrs. Jessie Herron Stutesman. ¶ Mrs. Henry Drought asked President Hoover to attend the sooth anniversary celebration of the construction of the Spanish Governor's Palace at San Antonio, Tex. next March. Another Texas caller was National Republican Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, ''Red-Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande." ¶ Widespread is the Washington belief that...
...session of the 72nd Congress after March 4. Parliamentary experts, familiar with the Administration's program, listed 13 essential bills Congress must pass in its 70 days. Of these, eleven were appropriation bills to pay Federal running costs through fiscal 1932. The other two were Unemployment Relief and Drought Relief...
First defiance of President Hoover in the Senate last week came on drought relief legislation.* Though the President's drought agents had recommended a $60,000,000 measure last October, the Department of Agriculture later whittled this estimate down to $25,000,000. Over Presidential protest the Senate Committee on Agriculture unanimously approved a bill to loan farmers the full $60,000,000 not only for feed and seed but also for food. Nor could President Hoover count on support from Senate Democrats on this issue because their leader, Arkansas Senator Robinson, dropping harmony, loudly announced for the larger...
...Weather Bureau last week reported that the 1930 drought in the East and Midwest was "the most severe in the climatological history of the U. S.," was able to give no "conclusive or comprehensive" explanation of its causes...
...members and appointed a committee to notify the President it was in session, adjourned. In the House, however, a rush of proposed legislation kept many a member in his seat. Evidence of inter-party truce (TIME, Nov. 17) was the presentation of an administration-backed $60,000,000 drought-relief appropriation bill by Democrat James Benjamin Aswell of Louisiana. Roy Orchard Woodruff of Michigan offered a bill to give the Federal Government jurisdiction over gangster murders resulting from illicit interstate negotiations. He said: "It is repeatedly charged that gunmen from one State are . . . imported into another State...