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...obstructionism right from the start. At his first big port of call, the tobacco town of Samsun, the local governor not only refused Gulek permission to hold a public meeting, but also decreed that he could not even hold a closed meeting with local Republican People's Party committeemen. Coolly, Gulek answered: "We have a perfect right to hold a meeting in our own party home." To the 300 people who braved police surveillance to crowd into Samsun's small, stifling party headquarters he announced his determination to fight for the repeal of Menderes...
...present him with such local delicacies as pears and, hazelnuts, the handshaking tactics worked well enough. But in towns, where clouds of policemen sealed him off from the populace, Gulek soon found that the only hands he got to shake were those ..of Republican People's Party committeemen. Accordingly, in Rize, where terraced tea plantations run up into cloud-capped mountains, Gulek decided on a new gambit-shopping. Casually, he strolled into the Rize bazaar to look at the local textiles. He got through three shops, shaking hands with the storekeepers and kissing customers' babies. Then a police...
With this in mind, the committeemen shed coats and went to work, blocking out a Senate version that contained the soil-bank program President Eisenhower had asked for (but no advance payments). Plagued by conditioned political reflexes, some members could not resist adding filigree. The outstanding ornament: a proviso that growers of feed grain (oats, barley, etc.) who do not comply with 1957 acreage allotments receive special supports based on those the President has recommended for commercial corngrowers who exceed allotments...
Minor opposition flared around the suggestion that the Committee had not investigated the Scholarship Program and thus should not endorse it. It was also felt that the canvass might require too much of the Committee member's time during reading period. Other Committeemen successfully attacked both points...
...every stage," said Chemist Hildebrand, "there were watchful men who honestly believe more in 'social competency' than in grammar and arithmetic, and, because good-natured committeemen try to fix up their reports so as to make every member happy, anything seriously critical of certain doctrines and practices largely responsible for the present deplorable and dangerous situation [in the schools] could not get through." In discussing Topic i-What should our schools accomplish?-six members out of eleven at Hildebrand's Table No. 40 flatly declared that the schools are trying to do too much. But when...