Navy expansion and tax policy debated in presidential message
The President urged more cruisers submarines planes and an aircraft carrier while cautioning on federal involvement in power and dam projects. He backed Muscle Shoals for nitrate and fertilizer use and warned to economize to avoid debt growth. He defended tariffs and enforcement of prohibition, urged railroad consolidation, and supported limited intervention abroad. Tax reform should be bipartisan and drafted by those who handle public finances to avoid deficits.
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Boulder Canyon
Colorado River
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Coolidge
Interstate Commerce Commission
China
Nicaragua
Mexico
West
Department of War
Coolidge on Farm Aid Aims to Self Salvation
President Coolidge argues aid should help farmers work out their own salvation socially and economically. He warns against price fixing and subsidies, favors reducing surplus acreage through cooperative groups, credit support, and a federal marketing board with revolving loan funds to steady farming without disrupting the budget.
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Coolidge
Federal
Board Ofr Commission
Department of Agriculture
Uch
Congress Warned to Guard Against Selfish Interests
The President urged Congress to resist special interests and propaganda engines, while advocating moderate military strength and naval expansion. He emphasized dependence on peaceful means, continued armament limitation talks, and avoidance of unnecessary competition, outlining budget discipline and debt reduction.
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Congress
Keeping Credit of Nation High Is Tremendously Profitable Operation
Government debt costs have fallen as bond refinancing lowers interest. Economy and debt retirement save substantial sums, with rebates and exemptions shaping a fairer tax system. Treasury recommends a measure for balanced taxation and sufficient revenue, with strong support for reform.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Present Military Policy Advocates Moderate Build Up
The nation advocates a defense oriented military policy with a sufficient personnel base and ample officers. A five year air force program aligns with peaceful aims, while the Navy must expand with submarines, aircraft carriers, cruisers and stronger sea power to defend commerce, coasts and the Panama Canal, beginning a measured building program.
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America
War Department
Navy
Panama Canal
Considerable Naval Building Is Advisable Regardless of Treaties
The piece argues for maintaining a substantial naval build, despite treaty limits, to ensure national defense and deter aggression. It notes failures to secure a three power treaty with Britain, value in conference results, and emphasizes that absence of a treaty should not shift U S policy or provoke harmful armament competition. It discusses naval reserve ideas, merchant ships as navy auxiliaries, and shifts toward air development with expanding aviation infrastructure and contracts.
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Japan
Great Britain
League of Nations Park
America
Amerca
Mereftant
Marine
United States
Treasury
Shipping Board
Naval Reserve
Proyue
National Treasury
Congress
Mexico
Central
South America
Post Office Department
Army
Navy
Canada
Rio Grance
Air Mail and Good Roads Promote Hemisphere Links
Government and private interests push Latin American air mail expansion with U S leadership and long term contracts. Road building gains backed by government funds with emphasis on trunk lines and Pan American collaboration. Cuban parcel post rules prompt discussion of tobacco trade and tariff repeal impacts.
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Aaw Ow
Pan American Congress
Hughways
Rio de Janeiro
United States
Cuba
Treasury
Post Office
President's Message Highlights Key Policy Areas
The message outlines creation of a federal farm board to assist cooperatives and fund administration, flood control works on the lower Mississippi, tax relief with selective excise retention, strong national defense with expanded Navy but no naval arms race, prohibition enforcement, strikes act potential, international move toward outlawing war, Philippines Congress oversight, Panama Canal flood dam project at Amajuela, and inland navigation to protect Gulf to Atlantic water routes via the St Lawrence.
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Federal Farm Board
Missiasird
Treasury
aArmy
Navy
Philiymines
Iwlands
Panama Canal
Amajuela
Merchitnt Marine
Secon Line of Naval Defense
Gulf
Atlantic
St. Lawrence
Progress in Philippines Tribute to Administration of General Wood
The report highlights steady improvements in the Philippines under Gov General Leonard Wood including roads irrigation harbor works public buildings and education. It calls for Congress to extend control of customs revenues and clarify auditor powers while noting self governance is 98 percent Filipino. A separate Porto Rico progress note mentions educational gaps and a push for elected governors with Congress study.
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Philippines
General Wood
Philippine Islands
Leonard Wood
Congress
Philippine Treasury
Porto Rico
Ita
Ita Treasury
United States
Panama Canal to gain water dam at Alhajuela
The article notes a new dam at Alhajuela costing about 12 million dollars to provide additional water storage for the Panama Canal. It is projected to take five years to complete and reflects ongoing fiscal and agricultural policy discussions. It also outlines broader agricultural progress and debates on surplus management and market stabilization.
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Panama Canal
Treasury
Chagres
Alhajuela
Increase in State and Local Taxes Burden on Farmer
The article argues state and local taxes burden farmers despite federal tax cuts. It urges rigid economy in state spending and notes Agriculture Department reforms to expand research. It warns tariff reductions should not harm domestic farming and stresses the domestic market as vital for U.S. agriculture.
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National Treasury
Reduction in Tariff Rates Endangers Farmers and Economy
The article argues against any material tariff cuts, warning they would depress farm values, shrink prices, and lower wages, harming farmers while harming national purchasing power. It reviews Farm Board reforms, farm loan supervision, and the fate of Muscle Shoals nitrate plants, urging focus on agricultural needs and economic stability.
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Imprest
Treasury
Federal Farm Board
War Finance Corporation
Eugene Meyer
Flood Control Pushes Stronger Dike System and Spillways
A historical report outlines a nationwide effort to expand flood control along the Mississippi. It details dike strengthening, emergency spillways, and navigation improvements, funded by federal and local sources, with relief efforts led by the American Red Cross and multiple emergency finance bodies. It notes land cost sharing, future financing considerations, and the government's humanitarian duty without full insurance against natural disasters.
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Mississippi River
American Red Cross
Farm Loan Board
Engineer Corps
Army
Corares
Iteenti
Adequate Plan Urged To Prevent Mississippi Flood Recurrence
The author calls for a federal program to prevent repeat floods along the lower Mississippi and its tributaries. The piece urges a single national approach with timely river improvements, flood control, navigation, and irrigation, while cautioning against diluting focus with unrelated projects. It notes Red Cross relief, highway reconstruction funds, and pending reports on waterways including the St. Lawrence project and Great Lakes levels stabilization.
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Congress
Mississippi
Iil
New England
Gamage
Red Cross
Department of Agriculture
Great Lakes
Board of Engineers of the
War Department
New York
Joint Board of Engineers
Canada
United States
St. Lawrence River
St. Lawrence
State Department
Federal Role in Boulder Canyon Dam Debate
A sustained argument favors federal action only as a last resort for Boulder Canyon dam on the Colorado River, stressing flood control and irrigation with California water supply as a secondary aim. States should negotiate, with federal involvement only after mutual concessions, while Inland Waterways and private enterprise are urged to handle navigation and transport developments where profitable.
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Boulder Canyon
Colorado River
California
Secretary of the Interior
Columbia River
Inland Waterways Corporation
Handa
Iland
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