Hoover pleads for moderation in federal spending curb
President Hoover urges moderate demands to Congress to keep expenditures down and avert tax hikes. He faces Senate criticism, especially from Senator Glass, over an aggressive White House list of proposed projects. The House quickly approves a $7 million farm loan measure for flood areas amid debate over pork-barrel politics.
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Edward W. Pickard
Hoover
Congress
Mr. Glass
Virginia
White House
Jeaders
the Treasury
Mellon
The
Treasury
Ogden Mills
Col. J. C. Roop
Walter H. Newton
Newton
Glass
Senate
House
Secretary of Agriculture
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
Dominican Republic
Vasquez
Santo Domingo
American Legation
Curtis
Santiago
Rafael Arena
Washington
Caribbean
Farm Board
Legge
Board
Chicago
Old Man Mars Bill Looms Large Over Uncle Sam Pensions
A sweeping look at federal pension costs reveals Uncle Sam paying vast sums to veterans from wars long past. The 1929 budget shows $833.8 million in pensions and offices, with World War I and earlier wars fueling a growing bill that will rise further into the 1960s.
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Ncle Sam
Mars
Uncle Sam
Prmicl
United States of America
France
United States
Japan
Frank Hines
Veterans’ Bureau
Earl D. Church
United States ‘Commissioner of Pensions
Sam
Pensions
Owen Thomas Edgar
Pension Bureau
Continental Congress
America
Congress
Monroe
House
Senate
Congressional Record
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President Coolidge
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Indiana
Illinois
Minnesota
North Dakota
Montana
New Mexico
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O’connor
Camule Chautemps
Chamber of Deputies
Chautemps
Pariament
Andre Tardieu
London
Center
Raymond Poincare
Doumergue
Tardieu
Poincare
Vwamar
Europe
Canada
Federal Farm Board
Oman
Catholicism
Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val
Basilica of
St. Peter's
Congregation of the Holy Office
Pius X
College of Cardinals
Cardinal Merry del Val
Carlo Cardinal Petosi
Mabel Normand
Ahmed Mirza
Persia
Maj
George H. Putnam
New York
Eugene Byfield
Harles Evans Hughes
Supreme Court
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Packers and Stock Yards Act
Western Newspaper Union
World War Veterans' Bureau
Sauson
BNO Lied Saxe Weteh
Government Life Insurance Fund
D. C
Pension Building
Judiciary Square
Capitol
Elmo Scott Watson