Word: earls
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...party in 1920, working first as an agitator among soldiers and draftees, and later earned the reputation of a political wunderkind by defeating Socialist Leon Blum for the Assembly. An orthodox Stalinist, Duclos gained leverage in the Communist International, virtually directed the 1946 expulsion of onetime U.S. Party Boss Earl Browder for continuing his wartime policy of soft-pedaling the "class struggle." After the Nazis invaded Russia, he organized the French Communist resistance and led its August 1944 insurrection in Paris, emerging from the war as one of the French party's most powerful figures and its presidential candidate...
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who normally backs any proposal that helps farmers, believes that this one would only encourage them to produce for Government guarantees. Its effect, says Assistant Secretary Clayton Yeutter, would be to take the nation "back into the dark ages of farm policy." Indeed, for four decades Government policy consisted of a labyrinth of props under income that expanded until it cost taxpayers $4 billion in 1972. By overhauling the old system, the Nixon Administration trimmed the price tag to about $500 million last year. Unless Congress can now override a presidential veto of the 1975 bill...
...household name today, except in Wyoming where he was governor from 1966 to 1974. But give the man a successful confirmation vote in the U.S. Senate and a few months as Secretary of Interior and his recognition level should rank alongside that of other cabinet greats, like Agriculture's Earl Butz and the recently-departed Attorney General William Saxbe...
Still others urge a policy of mutual aid, observing that it is in the self-interest of the wealthy nations as well as in the interest of those nations that are stricken with famine. Led by Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, developmentalists argue that the entrance of the Third World into the twentieth century can profit America's balance of payments. These men advocate the exportation of Western agricultural methods to the Third World. For these men, the markets of the Third World are as vital to the West as is food aid to the poor nations...
...white bread is selling for 60? a loaf, up 16% from a year ago. Nonetheless, Clarence Adamy, president of the National Association of Food Chains, claims that "food stores are posting more price declines now than they have at any time in the past three years." Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz estimated last week that food prices generally would "level off or decline" in the second half of the year...