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...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...
...waiting there since Wycherley's last play folded. "My dear Lady Dodds" (Martita Hunt), a magnificent, antique iron doe, is followed on stage by Dr. McAdam (Miles Malleson), a lovable, bumbling country practitioner. The local "artist" (Roland Culver) is also there, and the artist's wife (Elizabeth Allan). The wife's lover (Colin Gordon), a big doublethink expert on the BBC, and the local Labor M.P. (Edward Chapman) complete the ambitious chaplain's board of experts...
...Hunt, the Journal-Bulletin said, put up 95% of the money to start Facts Forum. Among the members of its national board: Sears, Roebuck Chairman Robert E. Wood, Cinemactor John Wayne, Texas Governor Allan Shivers, General Albert C. Wedemyer, All-America Football Player Doak Walker...
Texas, the state that split wide open during the 1952 election, is still divided. For Governor Allan Shivers, the rapidly declining "big man" in Lone Star politics, has made no move to heal the rift that separated his faction from the main trunk of the Democratic party...
...Lewis Allan's macabre picture of lynching has faded away. In 1953, for the second year running (and for the second time since the records were begun in 1912), there were no lynchings in the U.S., according to Alabama's Tuskegee Institute. In making the announcement last week, Tuskegee concluded that "lynching as traditionally defined and as a barometer for measuring the status of race relations . . . seems no longer to be a valid index." Henceforth, the institute will base its annual report on other criteria...