Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans have long depended on the small farming town as the center of their Midwestern strength. But recent years have seen a population trend away from the farm town to the cities. Indeed, with U.S. industry growing rapidly in the farm states, the importance of the farm vote itself has diminished. As a dramatic example, in Kansas, for years an absolute citadel of Republican-voting farmers, agriculture now ranks as seventh among the state's sources of personal income. ¶Farmers are especially sensitive to the inflationary effects of big-labor wage boosts and to Senate revelations of union...
Prices for Minnesota's dairy products have not kept pace with farm prices in the rest of the U.S.-and the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party has no peer at making Benson the villain. Even popular Republican Senator Ed Thye is in critical trouble, although running hard on an anti-Benson program. In the Ninth Congressional District, Democrat Coya Knutson is beset with family and factional problems, but is expected to win narrowly over Odin Langen, a big, friendly Scandinavian state representative who should be right down the Ninth's alley. In the Third (near Minneapolis) District, crotchety Democrat...
Bursting with beautiful, visible farm prosperity, Kansas has five Republican Representatives and one Democratic. In 1956, the six winners each got 55% or less of the vote-and on that basis it is conceivable that all six could switch this time. Against the lone Democratic incumbent, Floyd Breeding, Republicans have put up Cliff Hope Jr., son of vastly popular, Benson-needling Cliff Hope Sr., who retired from the House before the 1956 elections. But young Cliff has not yet shown his father's vote-getting abilities and is at best...
...Kansas is holding a right-to-work referendum and labor is working furiously in industrial Kansas City, which lies in Scrivner's district. Similarly, in the First District, Republican Incumbent William Avery should win against Topeka Lawyer Robert Domme but is plagued by a migration away from the farm towns to Topeka, where labor's C.O.P.E. is battling right-to-work. And in the Third District (in southeast Kansas, where lead and zinc mines are on their uppers), the Fourth District (including industrial Wichita) and the Sixth District (where Isolationist Wint Smith holds highly tenuous reign), Republican incumbents...
...other, Republican Governor Joe Foss is running against Incumbent Democratic Representative George McGovern, first Democrat to hold a South Dakota congressional seat in 18 years. The South Dakota vote is strictly agricultural: McGovern started ahead because Foss had lost friends by raising taxes; then rains brought a farm boom and Foss moved up; then an August drought came to McGovern's help. Result: McGovern appears to have a handy lead, rapping Ezra Benson while Republican Foss tries to avoid taking a stand one way or another on Benson. But Foss, World War II Marine Corps...