Word: burleson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neill said that peanuts have "no more right to be called [a basic crop] than cranberries or carnations." Replied Tic Forrester: "If the peanut program in this country is not basic, there is not one thing in this country that is basic." When Texas Democrat Omar Burleson pleaded for the peanut, he left hardly a dry eye in the House. To understand the situation, moaned Burleson, "you would truly have to know the story from the time a costly peanut seed was placed in the ground until it was finally consumed by a school child in Chicago...