Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students at Dunster House, and delivered an address at the House. The head of the European Community told the press that he was "extremely satisfied" with his talks last week with President Kennedy and other Administration officials--including Chester Bowles, McGeorge Bundy, Walter Heller, Luther Hodges, Douglas Dillon, Orville Freeman, and Sen. J. William Fulbright...
...choose among several Government aid programs depending upon which one they thought would be the most attractive. The possibilities include combinations of tight and generously subsidized acreage control and high price supports. Under a commodity-group system, committees of farmers would submit their own schemes to Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, who would then draw up a plan for each commodity, submit it to all involved for approval. After two-thirds of the farmers in each commodity group okayed the plan, it would go to the Congress for final approval or veto. U.S. farmers, voting in less expansive referendums...
...nothing to do with legislation that fattens the farmer -at the expense of the consumer. But what really irks both parties in both chambers is the fact that the bill takes away from Congress the power to write farm legislation and gives it to the farmers and Agriculture Secretary Freeman. Under the bill, Congress cannot change the plans, must either kill or rubber-stamp them as they stand...
Mounting Mountain. House Democrats lay much of the blame for the situation on Agriculture Secretary Freeman, who sent up Kennedy's controversial bill without really bothering to sound out congressional opinion. Says a House leader: "They didn't do their political homework before they did their legal drafting." Says a White House strategist: "The picture is pretty black. It's a barrel of eels...
...save the day, House leaders are trying to get Secretary Freeman to tone down his bill. At week's end Freeman was ready to make some compromises, but gave no indication that he was willing to scrap Title One. There was little time to lose. As Freeman fretted, his Agriculture Department announced that this year's bumper crop of wheat would add about another 125 million bu. to the stockpile that already totals 1,450,000,000 bu. Every day the U.S. spends $1,400,000 just to store a mountain of surplus food that now is worth...