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...were told at Dexter, Iowa in 1948* that the 80th Congress had prevented the Administration from providing storage bins for farmers. You were further told that this would make it impossible for many of you to get price-support loans...
...facts are now well known-and here they are: 1) the 80th Congress did not prevent the Commodity Credit Corporation from furnishing storage to farmers for their grain; 2) there was no shortage of storage space; 3) contrary to the implication, the Commodity Credit Corporation never has furnished storage to farmers-it hadn't before and it has not since; 4) the Commodity Credit Corporation was selling its own grain bins as surplus at the very moment the Democrat candidate accused the Republicans of having 'stuck a pitchfork in the farmer's back.' Now, who actually...
Near Rapallo, where he has lived for the past 40 years, Britain's famed Satirist Sir Max Beerbohm ("the inimitable Max") quietly passed his 80th birthday. Among his gifts: a privately printed scarlet-bound book containing tributes from such younger men of letters as Robert Graves, T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene...
...Harry Truman was more apt to consider than he was to call. He had made political hay with his dramatic call of a special session on "Turnip Day" 1948, but the situation is quite different in 1952. There is no Republican 80th Congress to blame for all the things that have gone wrong; the Democrats have had a clear majority for four years. Because of the shotgun reconciliation at Chicago, the Truman Democrats cannot gracefully belabor their much-whipped boy, the Republican-Southern Democrat coalition. The Southern Democrats are back in the family, and one of them is even...
...year-old city of Oslo scrubbed down its streets, hoisted flags and portraits and prepared to be the center of attention as Norwegians began a happy three-day national celebration: the 80th birthday of King Haakon VII, Europe's oldest reigning monarch...