Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long-Range Welfare." In the Senate, two men who have been close to the farm program for years, Vermont's Republican George Aiken, chairman of the Agriculture Committee, and New Mexico's Democrat Clinton Anderson, onetime (1945-48) Secretary of Agriculture, were strong for the Eisenhower-Benson plan...
...similar program, sponsored by Aiken, was passed by the 80th Congress in 1948, but has not come into operation.) In the farm belt, the president of the country's largest farm organization voiced his approval. Said Iowa Hog Farmer Allan Kline, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation: "The program is forward looking, with principles essentially sound for the long-range welfare of American agriculture." But the plan ran head-on into formidable opposition on Capitol Hill. Some longtime students of the farm problem, e.g., Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell, argued with details of the program...
...many a Republican politician joined in. North Dakota's Senator Milton R. Young, a professional Benson foe, got new headlines by demanding the Secretary's resignation. One of the few members of Congress to come to Benson's defense was Vermont's George Aiken, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, who said Benson was the victim of a "vicious smear campaign...
...Henry D. Aiken will return in the spring term from a year as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan...
...Conrad Aiken, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, is an example. He was first attracted to Grolier's by the usual assortment of esoteric books pyramided in the window. He became a regular visitor, and soon formed a literary friendship with Gordon C. Cairne, the shop's proprietor. In his autobiography Aiken speaks of his visits to the Grolier as some of the most refreshing moments spent in the Square. Joseph Alsop, New York Herald Tribune columnist, spent his undergraduate hours slouched in the shop's overstuffed sofa. Cairnic remembers him as "one of the fattest Freshmen ever to enter Harvard...