Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Five years ago," Freeman told a farm group in Lincoln, Neb., last month, "I was just beginning to learn what a Secretary of Agriculture does to earn the title." What does he do? "He sur vives." To which McNamara, Rusk and Udall would probably agree...
...ORVILLE FREEMAN, 47, experienced his darkest hour as Secretary of Agriculture in 1963 when U.S. farmers overwhelmingly rejected his wheat program. Since then, in one of the Cabinet's toughest jobs, Freeman has steered a four-year farm bill through Congress, reduced agricultural surpluses by nearly a third, helped to make American food production a key instrument of foreign policy. He now stands at the peak of his popularity with farmers...
Double Violation. Louisiana Attorney General Jack P. F. Gremillion defended his state's right to disfranchise mothers of illegitimate children-"bastardizing females," as he put it-along with convicted felons. Georgia's Deputy Assistant Attorney General E. Freeman Leverett admitted that he was "ashamed" of the South's history of voter discrimination, adding: "But Congress cannot, in order to appease a mob in the streets, invoke unconstitutional means to achieve a constitutional end." Meanwhile, Defendant Katzenbach, who had been accompanied to court by Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall and Assistant Attorney General John Doar, sat quietly awaiting...
...What was Bobby Freeman's follow-up to Do You Wanna Dance...
...India's need is now. In talks with President Johnson and Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Subramaniam explained that 1965's drought-decimated harvests had left India at least 13 million tons short of grain to feed its 480 million people. Though the U.S. made no definite promises, there seemed little doubt that President Johnson would step up U.S. grain shipments. As he left Washington, Subramaniam told reporters, "Your great President gave me confidence that the problem will be solved. I go back to my country inspired...