Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maneuvers in the legislature, George Craig was in the thick of the fight behind the scenes. Craig knows how to fight, and loves a good one. The descendant of Scotch-Irishmen who came to Indiana from Virginia about 1815, he grew up in the tough, coal-mining atmosphere of Brazil (rhymes with Hazel). His father, Bernard Craig, 75, is still practicing law there. A Jeffersonian Democrat (the last Democratic presidential candidate he voted for: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1932), Bernard Craig was a fierce foe of the Ku Klux Klan in the days when it was dominating the state government...
Passport to Prominence. In the depth of the Depression, George Craig went to Brazil to practice law with his father, and took whatever he could get-potatoes, meat, eggs and, once, three runt pigs-in lieu of cash fees. He became G.O.P. Chairman of Clay County, tried to get the nomination for lieutenant governor, and then got his passport to political success: in 1942 the U.S. Army Reserve called R.O.T.C. Lieutenant Craig to active duty in World...
...Team Player." Through Tile Manufacturer John A. Stelle, an old friend from Brazil, Craig met one of the national Legion's kingmakers: Stelle's father, onetime (1940-41) Democratic Governor John H. Stelle of Illinois. The elder Stelle immediately liked Craig, took him to see the chief crown bearer of the Legion kingmakers, Chicago Utilities Engineer James P. Ringley. Before long, Ringley & Co. picked Craig as the first World War II veteran to be the Legion's national commander. Says Ringley: "I saw that he was a team player to start with. He's a very...
...Brazil concluded an agreement with Hungary to exchange goods worth a total of $20 million, and raised the target for total trade with Czechoslovakia, originally $8,000,000, to $30 million...
...price cuts, both by Brazil and U.S. roasters, were caused by the drop in demand; coffee imports fell almost 20% during 1954. This was partly due to high prices, partly to the growing popularity of instant coffee, which has come up from a mere drop in the cup to claim 25% of the U.S. market. Not only does brewing coffee and dehydrating it at the factory stretch the beans more than 50%, but the housewife wastes less instant coffee, thus the nation is getting far more cups per pound...