Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More Than Stopgap. This year we have the best farm plank in our Democratic platform that any party ever had . . . We propose to support basic commodities at 90% of parity. We propose to extend protection to perishables through a combination of direct production payments, marketing agreements and production adjustments. In this connection I would like to try production payments to encourage earlier marketing of hogs in the years when the runs are heavy. This may be a good way to help end the anxiety and the anguish of violent price movement...
Evidence of this serenity-and of the way it has affected his thinking about his campaign-was written large over the President's activities last week. His Peoria speech struck hard at Adlai Stevenson for "mockery and deceit" on the farm problem, but what he regarded as most important was his explanation of the Administration's own farm record. Similarly, to the surprise of correspondents and staff alike, he showed no anger at his press conference when asked to comment on Stevenson's attack on his brother Milton Eisen hower. His color rose only once-when...
...unemployment in Western Pennsylvania represent a danger to Republican candidates, particularly Senator James H. Duff. His newly announced campaign trip to the Midwest and Northwest in mid-October-with speeches planned in Minneapolis, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland-has a similar purpose. In Minnesota the Republican ticket is endangered by farm unrest; in Washington and Oregon he has given Arthur Langlie and Douglas McKay his backing for the Senate, and he feels honor bound to support them in their uphill races. But the President has shown little concern for candidates in trouble because of local party apathy or faulty leadership. Told...
...color of his skin would inspire the powerful Southern Democratic congressional leaders to ignore him. Saund men see to it that the portions of Imperial Valley populated by Protestant Texans and Oklahomans know that Jackie is a Roman Catholic, and Saund asks how Jackie can oppose Government supports for farm prices and favor them for uranium (in which Floyd Odium is one of the nation's biggest investors...
...give him the publicity?"); Instead she darts around the district on her own, outfitted for frequent changes of clothes in the hot weather (she believes that a rumpled woman candidate wins no votes) and armed with a card catalogue on issues. She is well up on unique valley-farm problems such as irrigation and the astronomical cost of good land, promises to try to bring small business into the area if elected. Last week, when a listener asked for her views on organized labor, Millionairess Jackie set the Republican audience back on its heels. "I went down into...