Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Costly Seed. Texas Democrat Robert Poage, a peanut supporter, tried to put the blame on the candymakers. Waving a peanut bar over his head, Poage cried: "Mr. Chairman, here is a candy bar I just purchased within the last five min utes. This is the only peanut bar you can buy in the cloakroom. This peanut bar weighs, according to its wrapper, one and one-eighth ounces. You can make more than 14 bars out of one pound of peanuts, if you made them all out of peanuts." Poage slowly unwrapped the bar, continued darkly: "As a matter of fact...
...were trying to "deny the children of America the amount of peanuts they want to eat." Georgia's Representative Elijah ("Tic") Forrester snapped back: "The truth of the matter is that the children of the country today are getting more candy and more luxuries than ever before." Boston Democrat Thomas P. O'Neill said that peanuts have "no more right to be called [a basic crop] than cranberries or carnations." Replied Tic Forrester: "If the peanut program in this country is not basic, there is not one thing in this country that is basic." When Texas Democrat Omar...
That Little Bag. The more talk there was of peanuts, the more northern big-city Democrats began to come unstuck from the 90%-for-$1.25 deal. Brooklyn Democrat Abraham Multer found himself right alongside Brooklyn Republican Francis Dorn in bewailing the high price of peanuts at Ebbets Field: "There are just about twelve peanuts in that little peanut bag for which you pay 10?" Georgia's Forrester replied: "I thought we had come to an understanding with you Brooklyn people that you would pay us 10? a bag for peanuts and we would continue...
...next morning, the Democratic household was again in order. Abraham Multer, who on the previous day had been indignant about high peanut prices, decided that he no longer felt so strongly on the subject. A change of heart was admitted by Brooklyn Democrat Victor Anfuso who, although a member of the Agriculture Committee, had said at one point in the debate: "Frankly. I couldn't tell the difference between buckwheat and cottonseed, or between cornstarch and non-fat milk powder." What Anfuso could tell the difference between was $1.25 and something less...
...Change of Name? The extra head on the donkey put in a somewhat embarrassed appearance in connection with a Democratic strategy conference scheduled by National Chairman Paul Butler immediately after the governors' conference. When the Eisenhower-arranged meeting was over, Ohio's independent Governor Frank Lausche promptly headed for Columbus, leaving behind a sharp rejection of Butler's invitation to the Democratic session. Said Lausche: "I do not contemplate joining a political meeting to figure out ways and means of defeating the man who has just been my host." The same afternoon, Lausche had an angry answer...