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...White House promptly passed three of the four names along to the Senate. The fourth nominee, Olander, was stricken with last-minute doubts about whether he wanted the job after all. Last week the Senate Labor Committee approved Rothman, and quick approval of Hobart and Miller was in prospect...
Rain fell last week on east Texas and scattered sections of west Texas. The rain, plus announcement of an $8,000,000 federal-aid program, brightened the spirits of drought-stricken Texas ranchers. The rush to ship cattle to the stockyards tapered off, and beef rose $1 to $4 per 100 lbs. But the drought was far from over. And when and if it does end, Texas' water problems will be far from solved...
...been plowed clear of drifted dust. He gazed at the parched earth, ran some of it through his fingers, then went into conferences with farmers and ranchers. At week's end Benson said he would recommend that the Government do everything it can to give the drought-stricken southwesterners what they want: 1) emergency feed supplies at reasonable cost, 2) a Government buying program to take distress cattle off the market, and 3) emergency, long-term credit...
...distribution of Government-held cottonseed to drought-stricken Texas farmers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...when the slave power was crushed, conservatism, in mismated union with it, was stricken-and for decades thereafter in the U.S. the central power swelled and the conservative principle languished...