Word: corns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President headed west from Washington on his 5,284-mile congressional-election tour in such a cheerful, eupeptic and thoroughly nonpolitical mood that one reporter called it a "Give 'Em Hello Campaign." His first stop: the National Corn Picking Contest on the 400-acre Lumir Dostal Farm, ten miles northeast of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. There he stood up before a sea of 85,000 or more farmers, a tremendous forum for a campaign opener, got off to a sharp start when he proclaimed that realized net farm income was up 20% over last year and per-capita farm income...
Senator John Kennedy, Massachusetts urbanite who voted against rigid price props in 1956, preceded Eisenhower at Cedar Rapids' corn-picking contest with a stemwinding attack upon the author of flexible props, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: "His objective may be to get the government out of the farming business, but the farmers' objective apparently is to get Mr. Benson out of the governing business...
...Iowa there are seven Republican congressional incumbents, one Democratic. Iowa had a bumper corn crop this year, but farmers complain bitterly about being caught in a price-cost squeeze, and Democratic candidates work hard at blaming it on Benson. Republicans, in turn, have made labor corruption a major issue; e.g., in 1956 Democratic Governor Her'schel Loveless got $17,5°° in Teamsters' campaign contributions in violation of state law. Republicans have high hopes that Robert Waggoner, former administrative assistant to Iowa's popular G.O.P...
...Stagg was revolted by the drunkenness that he saw among his friends' parents in West Orange. "There wasn't one of my playmates who had a show in life, because their fathers drank every week," he says. So Stagg never drank. And beyond a couple of corn silks as a kid, he has never smoked. The one chink in Stagg's Spartan do-without-it armor is candy. He has always kept sourballs or similar hard candies on his dining table, has also allowed himself the smallest of indulgences in the smallest of ways: he cuts...
...Ford Show (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Tennessee Ernie ankles back with more of his dexterously aw-shucked corn and with City Slicker Ernie Kovacs as his guest...