Word: dakotas
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National Farmers Union, Denver. Essentially the farm organ of Trumanite Democrats, with a voice that seems higher than its membership: 308,000 family memberships in 25 states, strongest in the wheat-growing states of North Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma and Minnesota. President: loose-jointed, Kansas-born James G. Patton, 53, onetime high-school athletic director. General counsel: ex-President Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan. Economic adviser: Leon Keyserling, chairman of Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. The Farmers Union was organized in Texas in 1902 by a few farmers and a country editor, and was dedicated to improving...
There were immediate and powerful pressures on President Eisenhower to sign the bill. Four Republican governors from the farm belt (Iowa's Leo A. Hoegh, Kansas' Fred Hall, Nebraska's Victor E. Anderson and South Dakota's Joe Foss) got an appointment for this week at the White House to urge a signature. The 15 Republican Senators who voted for the bill, led by Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, also wanted to present their case directly to the President. For the most part, the argument of these Republicans was that, politically and economically, a bad bill...
...ruling threw a large question mark at similar statutes of Hawaii, Alaska and 42 states (all except Arizona, Missouri, North and South Dakota, South Carolina and Oregon). One state pressingly affected: Kentucky, where ex-Newsman Carl Braden, tabbed a Communist and convicted 16 months ago under a state law for advocating sedition, is now appealing a 15-year sentence and $5,000 fine...
Dream Man. The pattern of Phil Graham's life is the envy of many a politician and looks, indeed, like a quick montage of the American dream. Graham was born in South Dakota in the Black Hills mining town of Terry, near the site where Calamity Jane died. When Phil was six, his father Ernest, an engineer who had tried mining and farming in South Dakota and Michigan with no luck, took the family to the Florida Everglades to launch an ambitious agricultural experiment for a sugar company. After a dozen years of floods, muck fires, hurricanes, frost...
...Walking Out." Broad as this statement was, the A.A.U.P. was willing to adopt it as its official position. Then it moved on to debate the cases of eight campuses recommended for censure: the University of California, Ohio State, Rutgers, Temple, Oklahoma, St. Louis University, North Dakota Agricultural College, and Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College. Each school had only ten minutes at the meeting in which to defend itself, and in the end all eight were duly blacklisted. But to some of its members, the A.A.U.P. seemed far from giving the accused campuses the same sort of treatment...