Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detrimental. His snideness in describing opponents of the program is only irritating. One blatant instance of it is his denigrating description of some particularly adamant opposition: "The most determined opponent of the bill when it reached Congress was to be Senator John J. Williams, Republican of Delaware, a chicken farmer." Williams, a U.S. Senator since 1946, once sold grain for chicken feed in his hometown of Millsboro, Del., but to classify a fourth term senior senator as a chicken farmer is surely carrying a grudge...
...state, Gillette opposed Roosevelt's plans to pack the Supreme Court, extend Lend-Lease aid to European Allies and serve for more than two terms. He overcame his reputation as an isolationist by helping to draft the United Nations Charter, but despite his apparent popularity and staunch pro-farmer politics, he was defeated for a fourth Senate term...
...goal, the President said, is to reduce the farmer's dependence on Government payments for part of his income, give him more freedom in planting decisions, and pave the way for increased crop exports. If the plan passes Congress -and that is anything but certain-the Administration would retain some residual authority to pay farmers to keep part of their land idle. But White House economists believe that such powers will not have to be used in the foreseeable future. "The Government is going to get out of the agriculture business," exults one economist who frequently advises Nixon. "They...
...Guarantee income rather than prices. Secretary Butz has repeatedly argued that the justification for high food prices is the farmer's understandable desire to earn an adequate income. Government subsidies and price supports, however, line the pockets of big, rich farmers far more than lower-income people on the land. Thus Washington should stop interfering with the free movement of agricultural prices and attack the periodic problem of low farm income directly -by supplementing what the marginally efficient farmer gets at market with outright Government payments. Under this plan, the Government would determine just how high the market prices...
...book, an autobiography written with the help of Jerusalem Post Reporter Helga Dudman, is called ...Or Did I Dream a Dream? For most of its 275 pages, it recalls a full and interesting life: a young German Jewish girl of good family marries a struggling farmer-soldier who later becomes Israel's Chief of Staff and then its Defense Minister. The book ends with a description of the somewhat humiliating ritual prescribed by the rabbinical divorce court where, in accordance with Jewish law, she is "cast out" by her husband, who then drops the get (divorce) papers into...