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Farmer Smith's Corn...
...alliterative and unlikely combination of Cadillacs, Chevrolets and corn stirred Capitol Hill last week as New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating took to the Senate floor to defend the well-publicized trip of a Mr. Smith, who went to Washington in a Cadillac bought with federal money he got for not growing corn...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman had already scoffed at Farmer-Businessman William T. Smith's trip as "a partisan propaganda stunt"-which it clearly was. He had also protested that Smith was hardly a typical corn farmer-which he never claimed to be. But Smith's stunt was still singularly effective. Last year he grew 262 acres of corn on his 1,200-acre dairy and poultry farm at Big Flats, N.Y., where he also owns a restaurant and has varied business investments. This year, in protest against the Government's subsidy program, he agreed to take...
Secretary Freeman snorted that such corny humor titillates only the many who are ignorant about the Government's farm program, but he quickly demonstrated that he was not above taking part in similar stunts himself. Five Illinois corn and soybean farmers got so mad reading about Farmer Smith's Cadillac that they jumped into a 1959 Chevrolet, drove all night and arrived in Washington the next afternoon to complain that Smith was not really a farmer at all, and was "creating a bad impression on city folks." The travelers were a motley band two were Republicans, three were...
...paintbox and easel, he looked like a peasant of the south of France, in corduroy coat and trousers. But enlarged in the statue, this corduroy looks like the bark of a tree. It looks like the texture he used in his Arles paintings, the great big scratches in his corn and wheatfields. Everything about him is so strikingly interesting. I did it with enormous enthusiasm...