Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bumper stickers and speeches, all intended to influence their votes in the May 21 national wheat referendum. Never in the history of U.S. agriculture has a crop referendum stirred such torrential efforts at persuasion. The wheat farmers will be voting on whether to accept or reject Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's drastic control program designed to cope with the wheat surplus (TIME cover, April 5). If two-thirds of those voting approve the plan, it will become mandatory for the entire 1964 wheat crop. The Agriculture Department will tell each wheat grower how many acres of wheat...
...requiring the Agriculture Department to merely present the facts, pro and con. After Freeman recently assured Congress that he had not tried to influence the wheat farmers' votes, Montana's Republican Congressman James F. Battin charged him with duplicity, called for his resignation. Last week the House Republican Conference issued a statement accusing Freeman of "half-truths" and "blackjack tactics." Freeman, the Republicans charged, was trying to turn the referendum into a "pressurendum." Freeman has an unforeseen ally on his side-the dry weather that has afflicted great stretches of the Great Plain this spring. Western Kansas...
...bona fide farmer of today has to be an exceptional businessman. He doesn't want or expect the taxpayers of the nation to support him; yet that is what Mr. Freeman, Mr. Cochrane and Mr. Kennedy seem to think he should and shall want. Their tactics to convince farmers and all citizens of this are open to question, and should be questioned by all those whose monies are being used to assure the U.S.D.A. a favorable vote in the wheat referendum...
...glad to see TIME print Mr. Freeman's definition of government-regulated freedom [April 19] in black and white. Perhaps it would have been better...
...Violin and Piano of James Walker, is close to Johnson, if with more reserve, for both possess a nostalgia like the piano (not the better-known music) of Aaron Copland. Finally, the sentimental harmony and florid lines of the traditional song style appear in the Three Songs of James Freeman, sung capably by Jean Lunn...