Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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R. S. Bowers of Brookline was elected President; M. J. Shagan of Brooklyn, New York, Vice-President; and F. E. Bowman of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Secretary-Treasurer, of the Freshman debating club for the present season. A large number were present at the meeting and it is expected that the...
Congress has heard the calls for help from the farmers. It proposes to answer them by means both direct and indirect. A resolution reviving the War Finance Corporation has passed the House and the Senate and is now on the way to the President. II Mr. Wilson does what he...
Indirect aid will be given by increased tariff rates on farm products, if the Ways and Means Committee can succeed in pushing its plan through Congress. The House is expected to pass the bill without difficulty, but the Senate may "load to down" by trying to include protection or manufactured...
If the agricultural interests are to be helped, it must be done in a way that recognizes the critical conditions as only temporary. All industry is suffering--manufacturing as well as agriculture; to favor the farmers and not the manufacture can be justified only if the legislation is framed to...
Congress has acted in accord with this slew. It realizes that, to he of any real value, help for the farmers must be immediate, for their security is limited to palatable crops. It cannot propose complicated schemes involving huge sums of money to include all those who are in trouble...