Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beam out loud and clear that the Democrats stood "ready and willing" to assume the burdens of world leadership. Kennedy even touched on a Midwest sore point-the kind that led Kansas Democrats to favor-Estes Kefauver over Kennedy for Vice President in the 1956 convention: the farm issue: Said Kennedy, who must live down his mildly anti-farm belt record: "I think we are going to have to consider carefully some alternative programs because the present ones obviously aren't working." Its ears tuned to the Kennedy voice, the crowd fairly forgot its old wounds, smothered him with...
...other Cabinet Ministers-rightists in the P.R.I.-were considered the leading contenders. But in choosing his successor, Middle-of-the-Roader Ruiz Cortines listened long to ex-Presidents Lazaro Cardenas and Miguel Aleman, who control the left and right wings of the P.R.I. Leftist Cardenas, with his millions of farm and labor backers, was clearly the more persuasive-and he vetoed the frontrunners. Lopez Mateos, not committed to left or right, was acceptable to all three President-makers...
...Midwest and Far West the farm problem and the unpopularity of Secretary of Agriculture Benson continue to plague the Republicans. Even if Benson retires in February, a likely possibility, it is inconceivable that the new Secretary of Agriculture could solve the farm problem before election time or could extinguish farmer discontent. In addition, since 1952, the GOP has polled fewer and fewer votes in the Far Western states, excepting Utah. The currently deepening economic recession in the Pacific Northwest also lessens Republican strength in that area...
Last week Hocking tore himself away from his farm and journeyed to Manhattan to receive a prize that is highly coveted among scholars-the LeComte du Noüy Award, named after the late French biophysicist who tried so eloquently to reconcile the conflicts between science and religion. The award is given alternately in France and the U.S. each year for the book that most successfully points the way to "the greatest development of the spiritual thought of our epoch.'' The book Hocking won it for: The Coming World Civilization (Harper...
Twentieth Century: Tersely titled FBI and scripted by bestselling Author Don (The FBI Story) Whitehead,* the latest edition of CBS's new documentary series bulged this week with mystery, mobsters and storied shots: closeups of Killer John Dillinger spreading his dimpled, farm-boy charm counterpoised with his hairy, half-covered corpse in the morgue; the sad-faced mourners at his funeral (where a photographer got slugged for being "disrespectful"); a Hollywood extortionist waiting on a street corner for money from Actress Betty Grable, getting caught by agents disguised as gardeners. There were absorbing glimpses of malefactors from George ("Machine...