Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Claude R. Wickard accused the Eisenhower Administration of basely betraying the U.S. farmer. Cried President Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture (1940-45): "I have before me [Candidate] Eisenhower's promises to farmers in 1952 and [President] Eisenhower's veto message of the first 1956 farm bill. Like the man on the flying trapeze, he has switched from one to the other with the greatest of ease...
Last week, with farm prices rising rapidly (TIME, May 12), Claude Wickard, no longer running for public office, abandoned agricultural recession as a Democratic issue. Confiding to reporters in Kansas City that his 620-acre farm at Camden, Ind. is making money hand over fist, Wickard said: "I can't complain about $21 hogs. My son-in-law and I sold ten Holstein cows the other day for $240 each. I didn't believe in Santa Claus until then...
...blonde, comely wife Cornelia Knutson cooked hearty food, waited cheerfully on tables and made the guests feel right at home. But no longer: in 1954, popular "Coya" Knutson, long active in Minnesota's Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party, ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, visited every farm in northwest Minnesota's Ninth District, won, and went off to Washington. With Coya gone, the hotel business fell off to the point where Andy Knutson finally closed the restaurant, took a part-time job with a plow dealer...
...Tarn was the seventh Calumet colt to come home first in the "Run for the Roses,'' the third since Mrs. Markey inherited the farm from her first husband, the late baking-powder heir. Warren Wright. And Plain Ben Jones has even one more Derby winner than that: he trained the great Lawrin for Kansas City Clothing Merchant Herbert Woolf back...
...disappeared into the nearby woods. While the robbed slugger whooped with delight and the stands cheered, bewildered prison guards tardily set out in chase. But fleet-footed Centerfielder Ronald Mules (larceny, breaking and entering), had broken up the ball game and broken clean away from the Concord, Mass, prison farm...