Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roughhewn, painfully serious Charles B. Shuman, 49, an Illinois stock and grain farmer, and a teetotaling Methodist Sunday school teacher. The American Farm Bureau grew out of the agricultural recession after World War I, aligned itself with the relatively low stopgap subsidy policies of the Roosevelt Administration in the 1930s, saw the ruinous results of subsidized surpluses under the Truman Administration, has since-under the influence of its efficient, prosperous Midwestern members-generally supported Republican farm policy, e.g., the Farm Bureau held fast against this year's Democratic farm bill, opposes price floors for hogs and cattle, backs flexible...
...griddle before the House Committee on Agriculture, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson stood stubbornly by his flexible price supports and his soil bank. Chiding Benson, North Carolina Democrat Harold Cooley said that the soil bank was, in fact, a Democratic idea used in the 1930s. Replied Mormon Apostle Benson: "Its sources probably go back to Joseph in Egypt...
...worked on art in his spare hours. By the time he decided to devote himself full time to his art, his realistic scenes of grim train yards, black iron drawbridges, rows of workers' unpainted houses had put him in the forefront of the American Scene painters of the 1930s. But as one critic quipped, Burchfield, with his prevailing gloomy mood (see cut above), seemed too often like Painter Edward Hopper on a rainy...
...Collected Stories, by Isaac Babel, were the work of a little-known Eastern Jewish writer who disappeared, probably into a Russian concentration camp, in the late 1930s. An intellectual who fought as a cavalryman for the Bolsheviks, Babel wrote with extraordinary power and vividness about ghetto life and the brutality of revolution...
...English and the town is Moscow. Last week, for the first time since the 1917 revolution, an English theatrical company was playing in the Soviet capital. It had come to town with an old Russian favorite: Shakespeare's Hamlet (which was presented in the Russian theater of the 1930s as a story of the triumph of a young revolutionary). The Hamlet was a new production (in English) that had not even been proved in London, boasted but a single starkly simple set, and offered a talented but young (33) and relatively untried Hamlet, Paul Scofield...