Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faith, Hope & Parity" [Oct. 21] you write: "The biggest shock to farmers was Freeman's gaffe in March expressing pleasure at a slight-if short-lived-drop in food prices. Never before had a U.S. Secretary of Agriculture publicly applauded a decrease in farm income...
...Thousand Days Arthur Schlesinger called the Minnesota delegation the key to Kennedy's victory in the 1960 National Democratic convention. The D.F.L.'s national power was graphically shown as the governor, Orville Freeman, now Secretary of Agriculture, nominated Kennedy, Senator Eugene McCarthy nominated Stevenson, and Humphrey remained a candidate himself...
...thousand bulbs were given to the 'Cliffe by Maurice Freeman, a friend of President Bunting...
...White House as well as out-got to talking one recent evening about bedrock allegiances in the Cabinet. Their remarkable conclusion was that in the showdown Bobby would ultimately command the loyalties of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and even Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert Weaver, despite the harsh treatment that Kennedy subjected him to during the recent hearings on cities. Behind Johnson, the experts speculated, would be Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Commerce...
...what about the farmer? Secretary Freeman insists that the farmer is responsible for only a small part of the rising price of food. Figures from his own department contradict him. They show that since 1964, farmers have actually raised their cut of the housewife's grocery dollar from 37? to 40?; they also show that average farm-family net income has gone from $3,642 to $4,785 in the past two years...