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...initiation fee, $100; yearly dues, $50. Among the 197 members are many lobbyists and several governmental figures, including Democratic Senators Frank Church of Idaho, Daniel Brewster of Maryland, J. Howard Edmondson of Oklahoma and Harrison Williams of New Jersey. Among Republican members are two Congressmen, Montana's James Battin and Ohio's William Ayres...
...requiring the Agriculture Department to merely present the facts, pro and con. After Freeman recently assured Congress that he had not tried to influence the wheat farmers' votes, Montana's Republican Congressman James F. Battin charged him with duplicity, called for his resignation. Last week the House Republican Conference issued a statement accusing Freeman of "half-truths" and "blackjack tactics." Freeman, the Republicans charged, was trying to turn the referendum into a "pressurendum." Freeman has an unforeseen ally on his side-the dry weather that has afflicted great stretches of the Great Plain this spring. Western Kansas...
Early Years: Born Nov. 12, 1900, in Elizabeth, N.J. His father, Peter J. Mitchell, was editor of a funeral directors' trade journal. His mother, Anna Driscoll Mitchell, now 74, is still living in Elizabeth. Cinemactor Thomas (High Noon) Mitchell is his uncle. Graduated from Elizabeth's Battin High School in 1917, could not afford to go to college, got a job in a grocery store...
...Fannin' and battin'" the shanks of a red-eyed Brahman bull, Harley May of Sul Ross College came winging out of the chute, absorbed three spine-cracking jolts, and ended up flat on his back on the tanbark of Fort Worth's Will Rogers Coliseum. Grinning sheepishly, May got up, dusted off his skintight blue jeans and admitted ruefully: "I didn't do so good...
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