Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...safety plays such a large part, the greatest variable is the weather; and until technical instruments are radically improved, men and planes will surely come to grief. The weather is a basic factor in the creation of what is euphemistically known as the national dividend. It can harass a farmer, make or break his harvest; it can ruin an otherwise good haul of fishermen, or wash out incredibly expensive roadways. All this destruction could be mitigated with more research and less of the present guesswork...
...Mother India is too poor for radio. In the whole peninsula no sets are manufactured, and imported receivers are subject to heavy duties. But India's ryot (farmer) needs radio. He gets news only from bazaar gossip on market days, loses even that source when impassable roads through the four-month rainy season keep him home. So for three years All-India Radio (controlled by the Indian Government) has been trying to figure out a broadcasting scheme to enlighten rural India...
...laughing waters called Minnehaha, in Minnesota were merrily roaring last week, the windup of Minnesota's gubernatorial campaign was sufficient reason. That spectacle had reached a point where Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer A. Benson, stung by his Republican opponent's charges that the Farmer-Labor administration was a corrupt city slicker machine, hurled back the worst epithet he could think of, called burly young Republican Harold E. Stassen a "drugstore cowboy." As fantastic were Republican Stassen's chief campaign planks against the most successful Farmer-Labor party in the U. S. : he promised: 1) a State Labor...
Candidate Benson worries not so much about the 125,000 votes Stassen polled in the Republican primary as the 210,000 votes polled by insurgent ex-Governor Hjalmar Petersen in the Farmer-Labor primary. Insurgent Petersen, who thinks he and not "Radical" Elmer Benson is the rightful heir of Farmer-Labor's late, great Boss Floyd Olson, has pointedly failed to make his peace with the Governor. Other insurgent Farmer-Laborites have emphasized the split by testifying before the Dies Committee in Washington that today's Farmer-Labor party is riddled with Communism...
Apparent losers in any combination were Democratic Candidate Thomas Gallagher (campaigning for $50 pensions for Minnesotans over 60) and Democrat Franklin Roosevelt. The President failed to accommodate Elmer Benson, a vociferous New Dealer, by scratching the Democratic slate in favor of Farmer-Labor as he did in 1936. With no similar New Deal deal in sight last week, Twin Cities betting odds, hitherto favoring the well-oiled Benson machine 10-to-9, dropped to even money...