Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your story serves as a reminder to us plain folk of the Midwest plains that not all corn is on stalks...
...F.D.R.s Lap. In scope and philosophy, Charlie Shuman's outfit today has little in common with the Farm Bureau that set out 45 years ago as a "wedding of corn and cotton"-meaning farm interests of the Middle West and the South. In the dire early days of the New Deal, when the bottom had dropped out of farming, the Farm Bureau cheered virtually every program it now condemns. It sat on Franklin Roosevelt's lap, busily buried pigs for Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace -even had a loose alliance with labor (in exchange for labor's support...
...large part of Shuman's weekend is spent looking over the 1,013-acre mixed farm (corn, wheat, hogs, Aberdeen-Angus beef cattle) that Shuman owns in partnership with his three older sons. Like father, like sons. The Shuman boys are hotly against government in agriculture. "I don't see why the Federal Government should support me," said Charles. "Dad wouldn't accept a green check-from the Government-and neither would we."† Weekend over, Mabel drives Charlie back to Mattoon on Monday morning in time to catch the 7:06 back...
With the diverse interests of the organization's members-from Maine potato growers to Florida citrus farmers, California orchardists to Wisconsin dairymen, and hog, peanut, cotton, livestock, wheat, rice and corn growers scattered in between-it is a wonder that Shuman is able to make a coherent presentation on anything. Yet surveys by farm magazines show that a majority of the Farm Bureau's members approve of the organization's policies as articulated by Shuman...
...chatted in almost flawless Spanish with farmers in a corn patch outside Mexico City. In El Salvador, he was charmed to hear members of a pick-up band tootle The Star-Spangled Banner, which they had learned by ear from a Peace Corpsman, who had whistled it for three days. In Panama, he visited an Alliance-financed grade school and attended a dinner honoring the fourth anniversary of the Alliance, which he heads as part of his assignment...