President Coolidge outlines tax cuts and debt relief plan
President Coolidge reports four years of prosperity and reduced debt, urges tax reductions funded by budget balance. He argues for a balanced system, warns against deficits, and calls for nonpartisan, responsible tax legislation while maintaining national defense and air force programs.
Outline of military and civilian development plans
The text argues for a strong but restrained national defense, detailing needs for housing, ships, aircraft, and road and port infrastructure. It notes past funding, urges continued private and public cooperation, and stresses nonprovocative military aims, international law, and regional road and air services expansion.
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America
War Department
Panama Canal
Japan
Great Britain
League of Nations
Pan-American Congress of Highways
President's recommendations to Congress on farm relief and flood control
The President urges creation of a federal farm board to administer a revolving fund aiding cooperatives, and calls for flood control on the lower Mississippi with dikes, spillways and navigation aids. He argues against price fixing or subsidies, favors acreage reduction through cooperative marketing, and supports tax reform, banking safeguards for agriculture, and careful flood relief funding. He notes the Mississippi flood disaster and the need for a national plan funded by public resources.
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Philippine Islands
Leonard Wood
Congress
Philippine Treasury
Porto Rico
United States
Federal Farm Board
Mississippi
Treasury
Army
Navy
Philippines
Panama Canal
Alhajuela
Gulf-to-the-Atlantic
St. Lawrence
Posal
Ernest
Department of Agriculture
War Finance Corporation
Europe
Federal Land and Joint-Stock
Eugene Meyer
Mississippi River
American Red Cross
Farm Loan Board
Engineer Corps
Lower
New England
Red Cross
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Coolidge
Secretary of the Treasury
National Defense
Shipping Board
Naval Reserve
National Treasury
Commercial Aviation
Department of Commerce
National Airways
Western Hemisphere Air Mail
Mexico
Central
South America
Post Office Department
Canada
Rio Grande
Cuba
Post Office Departments
Chagres
Agriculture
Calvin Coolidge
Farm Loan System