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...Governors of Iowa, Michigan. Minnesota. Missouri, South Dakota. Wisconsin and Colorado read off statements abounding in such jolt words as "desperation" and "depression." Said Iowa's Herschel C. Loveless, leader of the Governors' march on Washington: Farm income dropped 29% below the 1958 level in Iowa last year, and "the farm income slump threatens the health of our entire economy." Said Colorado's Stephen McNichols: The state's "farm economy has been slipping more each year toward insolvency." Said Minnesota's Orville L. Freeman: "The continued disastrous decline in farm income must be halted...
...containing the names of 87 Senators and Representatives running for 1960 reelection. Sent several months ago to Teamster leaders around the country, it cited four Democratic Senators (McClellan, Mississippi's James Eastland, West Virginia's Jennings Randolph and Tennessee's Estes Kefauver) and five Republicans (South Dakota's Karl Mundt, Ida ho's Henry Dworshak. Colorado's Gordon Allott. Nebraska's Carl Curtis and Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel). Although Hoffa professes to be an all-out civil rights integrationist, he urged support for Ar kansas Supreme Court Justice Jim John son ("a professional...
...states have abolished capital punishment entirely: Wisconsin (1853), Maine (1887), Minnesota (1911), Alaska (pre-statehood), Hawaii (pre-statehood), Delaware (1958). Three others, Michigan, Rhode Island and North Dakota, are usually counted as abolition states, because they retain the death penalty only for one or two rare offenses (treason, murder in prison by a convicted murderer) and never invoke it. Eight other states abolished capital punishment at one time or another but later restored it. Missouri, for example, abolished the death penalty in 1917, reinstated it in 1919 after hoodlums killed two policemen in a gun fight...
Died. William John Bulow, 91, onetime (1927-31) Governor of South Dakota and isolationist Senator (1931-43), famed for his aim in spitting tobacco ("He enters the campaign with great expectorations," said an observer), who before World War II advised Congress, "Better raise more spinach instead of building battleships"; in Washington...
...White House limousine sped up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol one day fortnight ago, carrying two presidential aides to a secret meeting in the office of North Dakota's Republican Senator Milton R. Young. Gathered for the meeting were G.O.P. wheat-state Senators, all of them unhappy about the farm message that President Eisenhower was scheduled to send to Congress that very day. The Senators had found in the advance text a lingering echo of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's crusading spirit, and they felt that, considering Benson's unpopularity in the farm belt, a gentler...