Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expense-paid Government vacation at Fort Jackson, S.C., during the Korean War, was one of Senior Writer Stefan Kanfer's recollections when he sat down to write our opening story and assessment of the Southern spirit. New York Correspondent Eileen Shields, while reporting on Southern agriculture, interviewed a farmer with 100 acres and a mule. Lost to the story was the mule-a venerable 25, it died the day after her visit...
Carter last week spoke to his largest crowd of the entire campaign season: 70,000 farmers attending a "farm fest" on a muddy field in Minnesota's rural Lake Crystal. Introduced rousingly by Senator Hubert Humphrey, who accused the Ford Administration of "violating the law" in imposing embargoes on foreign grain sales, Carter assailed Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz and used a subtle "we" to identify with his attentive audience. "I never met a farmer who wanted a handout," Peanut Processor Carter said. "I never met a farmer who wanted the Government to guarantee him a profit...
During a vacation to her rural Wisconsin home in the fall of 1974, Frances Hill watched television interviewers talk with farm women about the dispute then raging between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Farmer's Organization. The women on TV were all middle-level farm organizers, Hill said recently, who in the past had worked beside their husbands, providing crucial economic services. But they had been expected to remain ladylike at the same time, and had never been permitted to participate in decision-making or public affairs...
...Republican state senator from his district, a career politician named Otto Bang, one of the 10 least effective legislators in the state. Bang would seek reelection in November, and as of June no serious effort to unseat him had gotten underway. Loegering sought the official endorsement of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party that month and it was his practically for the asking. Primary day was September 14, but Loegering, on the strength of the party endorsement, was unopposed. Since June he has been organizing a campaign for the general election in November, in which he will face the winner...
Wall, who began life as a poor farmer's son near the town of Uppsala, has become Sweden's highest-paid executive. He earns $340,000 a year, though taxes gobble up 80% of it. In addition, Wall controls 15% of all outstanding Beijerinvest shares, which at current market prices are worth about $3.6 million. In marked contrast to the stereotype of the dour Swede, Wall is a chipper, handsome, nattily dressed man who favors loud ties and modern art. A striking transparent torso of a woman stuffed with American $1 bills adorns his Stockholm office. Wall...