Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman had already scoffed at Farmer-Businessman William T. Smith's trip as "a partisan propaganda stunt"-which it clearly was. He had also protested that Smith was hardly a typical corn farmer-which he never claimed to be. But Smith's stunt was still singularly effective. Last year he grew 262 acres of corn on his 1,200-acre dairy and poultry farm at Big Flats, N.Y., where he also owns a restaurant and has varied business investments. This year, in protest against the Government's subsidy program, he agreed to take...
Secretary Freeman snorted that such corny humor titillates only the many who are ignorant about the Government's farm program, but he quickly demonstrated that he was not above taking part in similar stunts himself. Five Illinois corn and soybean farmers got so mad reading about Farmer Smith's Cadillac that they jumped into a 1959 Chevrolet, drove all night and arrived in Washington the next afternoon to complain that Smith was not really a farmer at all, and was "creating a bad impression on city folks." The travelers were a motley band two were Republicans, three were...
...Arthur Freeman will read from his own poetry next Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Lamont Forum Room...
Zealous and convincing, he perched at the hospital bedside of ailing (from hepatitis) Food for Peace Director George McGovern, made his case to Secretary of State Rusk, Under Secretary Chester Bowles, Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs Robert Woodward, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman...
Nebraskans were quick to retort. "Nebraska has some of the finest schools in the nation," said State Education Commissioner Freeman Decker. Sorensen's speech was "the most disparaging, untrue statement that I've ever heard," said Mrs. Fred Walker, chairman of the education committee of the Omaha chapter of the American Association of University Women. "It's extremely bad for a Nebraskan to come into his own state, without figures and statistics, to make such a statement...