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...difficulty of negotiating secured Federal loans in the Drought area was demonstrated in Lee County, Ark. where only 22 farmers out of 5,500 had been able to put up collateral to get seed and fertilizer advances from the Government...
Agricultural corporations. 5,000,000 Reappropriation for seed...
Recently the bandy-legged little Mahatma has abandoned even goat's milk as too luxurious, subsisted on a mixture of parched Indian corn, California raisins and bird seed. Ordered by telegraph to release St. Gandhi, the British Governor of Yerovda jail in Poona, incredulous, delayed to act, demanded "written orders." When these came St. Gandhi, arrested in the dead of night last May, was released in the dead of night. In London the Opposition press raged against the Viceroy's jail delivery, declared that he would be in "an almost ludicrously humiliating position" if the Gandhites continued...
Judge Payne's Red Cross was President Hoover's only reliance for human relief in drought-ridden areas. The President's program provided that the Government would supply loans to feed mules, to buy seed for a new crop, but that the Red Cross must minister to the physical wants of destitute farmers themselves. This plan when put into legislation engendered fierce political disputes (TIME, Dec. 29). Putting aside his political principles as a Democrat, Chairman Payne appeared before the Senate Committee to support his Republican President's relief program...
Still the Congress wrangled, all last week, over the relief bills to be enacted for drought-stricken farmers and the industrial unemployed. The House wanted to lend the farmers $30,000,000 for feed and seed; the Senate wanted to lend them $60,000,000.* The Senate insisted that the farmers be permitted to buy food for themselves as well as their livestock under the loan; the House thought this would be a dole. On the $116.000,000 unemployment-relief bill there was disagreement over: 1) Senator Robinson's amendment taking allotment of sums out of the President...