Word: battin
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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...
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