Word: amishmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Iowa Representative Edward Clayton Eicher's father was the kind of liberal who got kicked out of his Amish church for preaching that Amishmen should be allowed to wear buttons on their clothes instead of hooks and eyes. Congressman Eicher is the kind of liberal who read all the bills that came before the House. A wheelhorse in a pasture of mavericks, he worked on the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, defended the Court Plan, was the most ardent New Dealer among the Monopoly Investigation Committee's Congressmen. Last week Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed...
...Buzzard brothers-they were six-never got on well with the diligent, godly Mennonites and Amishmen of Lancaster County. One Sunday in 1867 a preacher tried to put them out of church and they were so annoyed that they broke the preacher's arm. As a result of that, they joined their mother who was in the county workhouse on a larceny charge. When the brothers got out they ran away from school and set up a sort of Robin Hood headquarters in the Welsh Mountains in southeastern Pennsylvania...
...plain-garbed, plain-spoken Mennonites and Amishmen of Pennsylvania, the New Deal has meant a far from abundant life. Because the Amish churches frown upon written contracts, loans, gifts and joining secular organizations, the "plain people" declined to sign contracts with the AAA, or accept its benefits, although they were willing to reduce acre: age where the law required. Mennonites in industry pay Social Security taxes, but declare they will not accept Social Security pensions. Nor will they join labor unions, although they meekly allow union dues to be "checked off" their wages...
Last year Amishmen and Mennonites of East Lampeter Township, Pa. petitioned the Government not to grant $56,200 of PWA money to their school board for a consolidated school. Their petition failing and the school completed, the Mennonites were about to defy the law and keep their children at home last month, when Pennsylvania's liberal Governor George Howard Earle came to the rescue. He ordered that they be permitted to put their children in rural one-room schools as they had been accustomed to. In gratitude last week 500 Mennonites and Amishmen of East Lampeter voted to give...
Forbidden by their religion to use motorized farm machinery, Amish husbandmen raise corn and tobacco which are best adapted for the efforts of man and horse. Last year the Pennsylvania Amishmen joined in the reduction of crops by voluntarily curtailing their tobacco acreage. They puzzled many a Washington official, played hob with many an AAA balance sheet, by refusing to accept any Government benefit money. Since then, however, as result of a referendum held in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Ohio, tobacco-growers who do not sign contracts are liable to a 33⅔% tax on the sale price of their crop...