Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deep South, spoke at Jackson, Miss, in support of the Supreme Court's school-desegregation decision,* nonetheless won a standing ovation and the presidential blessings of Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman. Kennedy rolled through the Midwest, where his Senate vote against rigid, 90%-of-parity farm supports had cost him the vice-presidential nomination, and came out with the support of Kansas' up-and-coming Democratic Governor George Docking. Says a top Oklahoma party strategist: "I have been moving around the state for the last couple of months, just looking and picking my teeth. Right...
Despite the jumbled effort, Jack Kennedy came breathtakingly close to the nomination-and lost only because of that Senate vote, earlier in 1956, against 90% farm parity. That fact, more than any other, dramatizes Kennedy's major 1960 problem: he is still in the Senate and he must still vote on highly controversial issues. And if it has been a strength in building him as a public figure, it is also a weakness in his presidential candidacy that Jack Kennedy, ever since he first went to Capitol Hill, has carved himself out perhaps the most independent record...
...During the 1956 Senate session, Kennedy was warned three separate times by Democratic leaders that his vote against high, rigid farm supports would cost him a place on the national ticket. But Kennedy, convinced that Democratic farm policy had been a failure, was willing to try flexible supports. Now he takes the position that they too have flopped...
...acre farm outside Plainfield, Wis. where George Gein was scratching out a living, the undisputed head of the family was his dominating wife Augusta. To her sons Henry and Edward, Augusta Gein railed ceaselessly about the vices of modern women?their short skirts, artificial hair waves, powder and lipstick. During heavy rains she would read to the family the story of Noah and the flood, prophesied another flood to wash out women's sins. She made no secret of her favoritism for her younger son. Eddie Gein (rhymes with wean) became a mama's boy, hating other women as mother...
...Easter Week. In the midst of World War I, he had landed from a German submarine on the coast of Kerry, ostensibly to foment rebellion. A boatload of rifles was to be landed after him but the vessel was intercepted by British warships; Casement was spotted by a farm girl and captured by a pair of village policemen...