Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President headed west from Washington on his 5,284-mile congressional-election tour in such a cheerful, eupeptic and thoroughly nonpolitical mood that one reporter called it a "Give 'Em Hello Campaign." His first stop: the National Corn Picking Contest on the 400-acre Lumir Dostal Farm, ten miles northeast of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. There he stood up before a sea of 85,000 or more farmers, a tremendous forum for a campaign opener, got off to a sharp start when he proclaimed that realized net farm income was up 20% over last year and per-capita farm income...
...national board of Americans for Democratic Action, he was long a particular favorite of the U.A.W. But during his 1955-56 congressional term, he polled his Sixth District farmers, found them strongly in favor of flexible price supports-and therefore voted for the Republican Administration's farm program. His vote infuriated the U.A.W., which by no means confines its Sixth District interests to labor policy. High, rigid farm subsidies are an article of the U.A.W.'s national Democratic faith, and Hayworth found himself accused of treason. Big Labor refused to back Hayworth against Chamberlain in 1956, this year...
...nothing inconsistent with my being a Republican and being interested in the welfare of the individual worker." Even while trying to stave off losses in Genesee, Chamberlain cannot afford to neglect Ingham and Livingston, and already he has heard complaints that he has not been seeing enough of his farm friends. To handle that problem, he scheduled a tour through the district's farming areas this week with Ezra Benson, whom Chamberlain deems a decided political asset...
...beleaguered member of the House-as the hustling, aggressive, inexhaustible, politically tuned embodiment of what it takes to run for re-election to Congress. To begin with, he has a running start because he knows and understands his district through personal identification. He was born on an Ingham County farm, heir to three generations of Ingham County farmers ; he worked as a youth in Lansing's Fisher Body plant; after a four-year World War II Coast Guard hitch, he practiced law (University of Virginia Law School, '49) in Lansing, came up through the political ranks from assistant...
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, sole owner of the crown's 2.5 million acres, is Iran's biggest single landholder. Since 1950 he has distributed his vast farm properties to the peasants of some 100 of his villages. To help establish a new class of independent farmers, a Development Bank has lent the new small holders money at low interest. But his fellow landlords (who own 70% of Iran's arable acres, the vast majority of its 40,000 villages) have heeded neither the Shah's example nor his exhortations to sell some of their land...