Word: aiken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conrad Aiken contributes an Opening Response: Lord, Lord, give us Thy day, that once more we may be the endless miracle that embodies Thee. And a Wal lace Stevens' poem becomes an Evening Response: We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark...
Republicans George D. Aiken and John J. Williams rejected the finished bill outright, and three other members (two Democrats, one Republican) joined them in a minority report rejecting the feed-grain support clause. It was, they agreed, "the kind of contradiction which caused the President to veto the original farm bill," and would boost costs for dairy, livestock and poultry farmers. The full Senate, considering the bill this week, would have to decide how much attention to pay to the mail and how much to the filigree...
...statement as a hint that he would accept complete emasculation of the Administration's flexible price support program rather than veto a farm bill this year. Accordingly, at week's end, the committee came forth (by an 8-to-2 vote, Vermont's Republican George Aiken and Florida's Democratic Spessard Holland dissenting) with a bill that Democratic Senator Allen Ellender, the committee's chairman, jauntily declared "gave the President everything he asked for, and added some ideas of our own." What Louisiana's Ellender apparently meant was that the bill gave the President...
...Court Tennis delegation which entered the National Invitation Tournament at Aiken, S.C., last week after sweeping the Big Three match in New York, came home last Sunday with disappointing results. Numbers one and two on the team, Lucky Ludington and Dazzler Davis, were dropped out of the tourney in the first round by a famous father-son doubles combine, George and James Bostwick...
...covering cotton, wheat, corn and peanuts, a two-price plan for rice, mandatory support prices for feed grains and higher supports for dairy products. Then, in a crowning touch of irresponsibility, they voted to "set aside," i.e., ignore, much of the stored surplus commodities. Asked Vermont's exasperated Aiken: "Why not a formula which ties the price of peanuts to the batting average of the Washington Nationals or the New York Yankees, whichever is higher? And we all know which will be higher. This could be rationalized, since peanuts are consumed in all ballparks...