Article describes the conflict in the United States Congress over the passage of farm relief legislation in the 1920s. Two senators and eight members of the House of Representatives were delegates from Oklahoma, and fought for such measures as the McNary-Haugen bill to assist struggling farmers.
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Article describes the conflict in the United States Congress over the passage of farm relief legislation in the 1920s. Two senators and eight members of the House of Representatives were delegates from Oklahoma, and fought for such measures as the McNary-Haugen bill to assist struggling farmers.
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Abstract: Low crop prices, indebtedness, declining land values, and the end of family farming. The year was not 1984; it was 1924, and the cries of protest were coming from the United States Congress. In this timely article, Phillip A. Grant examines the response of the Oklahoma congressional delegation to the farming crisis of the 1920s.
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The Chronicles of Oklahoma
The Chronicles of Oklahoma is the scholarly journal published by the Oklahoma Historical Society. It is a quarterly publication and was first published in 1921.