Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm belt, where the Democrats originally had hoped to gain most in 1956, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, North Dakota, Indiana and Ohio are all for Ike; Minnesota is a tossup...
...week's end Stevenson flew eastward to his Libertyville farm, radiant with satisfaction over the way things are going for the Democrats in the West. His estimate of his week's pulse-taking: Montana, "very, very optimistic"; Idaho, "reassuring"; Washington, good prospects for the ticket "and especially for Senator Magnuson"; Oregon, desperate Republicans are sending for Ike; California, "always hard to predict, but I am much encouraged...
...through his outer office, bussed the governor and then loped on up to the legislature, where she darned near kissed a quorum. Others are against him on the basic issue that he has raised taxes. Some farmers oppose him because they do not like the Eisenhower Administration's farm program; some Republicans are displeased because of his feelings toward Secretary Benson. And some of the plain, quiet, steady people of Iowa, who like their public officials plain, quiet and steady, are against him simply because he has moved so fast and has done so much. Said one Indianola house...
...this context, Stevenson has advocated long range-range Federal aid and development in depressed areas, which would certainly be a partial solution. He has, in addition, envisioned wide scale development of small industries in non-urban areas. While he did not mention this idea in reference to the farm problem, Stevenson has the insight and the imagination to make the application...
...Republicans, in the meantime, are to be congratulated for facing the realities of the farm problem and telling them to the American people. The Democrats, it is to be hoped, will begin where the Republicans end by proposing vigorous and imaginative development programs in agricultural areas...