Word: came
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...farm products were continued. In its nearly 30-year history, the federation, strongest U.S. farm lobby, has always gone down the line for price supports and for guaranteed markets. Congress had seldom failed to heed its cry. This year it was the Southern cotton and tobacco growers who came out strongest for keeping farm support prices as high as possible and for extending them to commodities that are not being supported under the present law (e.g., fruits and vegetables...
...Southerners got some powerful opposition. It came from shaggy-browed Allan B. Kline, who succeeded the South's Edward A. O'Neal when he retired as president last year (TIME, Dec. 29). Farmer Kline last year raised $40,000 worth of hogs and hybrid corn on his Vinton (Iowa) farm; he also found time to sit on the board of Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank. He believes that if farmers are to stay free enterprisers, they should not rely too heavily on Government support...
Shortly before 5, an hour & a half late, a stumpy little figure in dove grey hat and black overcoat came through the frosted glass doors from the street. Flanked by his lawyer and RCA's David Sarnoff, J. Caesar Petrillo, boss of the union musicians, had arrived...
...small group of bored musicians, engineers and minor officials. A poker game was started, and Arthur Godfrey, who had been called in to cut some corn named I'm Going Back to Whur I Come From, "noodled," as he called it, on the studio organ. When word came that the ban was over, Columbia, undistracted by bigwigs and publicity gags, got to work on their first record half an hour before Victor...
Statue. The climax of Thomas' career came at Chickamauga, on Sept. 20, 1863, when his corps of perhaps 20,000 men held up the entire Confederate Army under Bragg (over 50,000), after Thomas' superior, Rosecrans, had retreated to Chattanooga. Contemporaries paid so much attention to the blunders of both Rosecrans and Bragg that Thomas' achievement seemed less impressive to them than it seems now, and the fact that Chickamauga was a Confederate victory obscured the brilliance of his own handling of his troops. Both biographers tell the story of the battle in great detail, and both...