Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republicans, who felt sure of victory with Eisenhower, would certainly have their uneasy moments until they were again sure that they had Eisenhower. Democrats, who even before the operation had dreamed of winning against the President (by cutting into the Republican farm states, seizing at least one heavily urban state and winning back the South), were certain to place new hope in this arithmetic now. Moreover, if Ike runs, Democratic campaigners will be tempted to harp on the health issue. At a Democratic policy conference in Des Moines last week, Oklahoma's U.S. Senator Robert Kerr tried the tune: "There...
...cold morning after Minnesota's presidential primary, Adlai Stevenson rose early at his farm near Libertyville, Ill., stuffed his shaving kit and a pair of pajamas into his briefcase, hurried downstairs and left a penciled note for a house guest. "Sorry I had no chance to visit with you," he wrote, "but I must go into town and get to work. We've just begun to fight!-Yours, A.E.S...
...Knockout. In crucial California, Stevenson won all the way. Although Kefauver had lured every special group with every special promise he could muster up, Stevenson carried cities and farm country, labor districts and white-collar districts, Negro areas and melting pots. In the expected total of about 1,800,000 Democratic ballots, Stevenson won an unexpected margin of about 450,000 votes...
Iowa. With no presidential delegates at stake, the leading contest was for the Senate seat occupied and defended by Republican Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, 59 ardent supporter of the Benson farm program. Hickenlooper won renomination by a two-to-one margin over Attorney General Dayton Countryman, 38, temperance and high price-support advocate. Hick's November opponent will be R. M. ("Spike"') Evans, 65, landowner, onetime AAA administrator under Henry Wallace and a high price-support man who defeated Jefferson Attorney Lumund Wilcox, 43, for the Democratic nomination. In contrast to the Republican vote (down 22,000 from...
...FARM SURPLUS will grow this year despite heavy Government sales. Though U.S. has got rid of almost $1.8 billion in surplus goods (15% more than last year) in fiscal 1956, increased buying because of lower farm prices boosted total hoard to $8.2 billion v. $7.1 billion at end of fiscal...