Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry and Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman join Author Rachel Carson et al. to discuss the danger of pesticides...
...those who feel reassured by the statistical underpinning beneath a TIME story, it might be noted that the Washington file alone for this week's cover story on Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman totaled 45,000 words. It took a heap of filing to describe something of what goes on in 4,844 rooms and what is said along the eight miles of corridors that make up Washington's second largest bureaucracy...
...Zing. While the farmers were still thumping each other's backs, a spotlight picked up the evening's star performer, striding down a side aisle. The organ abruptly switched to that old Democratic anthem, Happy Days Are Here Again, and onto the stage bounded Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. The farmers cheered, whistled and clapped...
Standing beneath a big yellow banner proclaiming FARMERS UNION-ABUNDANCE, PEACE, FREEDOM, Freeman gave his audience some pats on the back: "Most city folks are not aware of the benefits they derive from your success." He gave himself some too: "I am pleased that we have made real progress in the last two years." What he said was the familiar fodder of New Frontier farm speeches, but he said it with plenty of oratorical zing, and his audience interrupted 24 times with applause...
Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman hopes that the plan will remove a lot of farm land from production, thereby reducing the price-support burden while providing recreational facilities "on these rural lands near the crowded millions in our cities, convenient and easily accessible...