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Everywhere Nehru's Congress Party candidates are symbolized by a pair of yoked oxen, the Socialists (who are being left in the shade) by a large banyan tree, the Communists by a sickle and three ears of grain. One Benares independent chose a camel, startled the Holy City by staging a procession of 100 camels through the streets. Another chose a rose, began distributing roses among his constituents. An anti-Prohibitionist made his symbol a bottle (he lost). The Religionists went in for rising suns and burning lamps. Holy Man Brahmachari chose a boat...
When he moved into Sudan, Texas (pop. 1,400) about four years ago, Offie Shannon was hardly noticed. A 46-year-old Texas farmer, Shannon went into the grain business, and he and his wife helped pour the concrete for his first grain elevator. But before long, he was the talk of the town. A one-man building boom, Shannon built close to $750,000 worth of warehouses, stores and houses. He was elected president of the local chamber of commerce. In his spare time, Shannon wrote and started to film a movie on the life of Christ, with...
Last week the secret was out. Shannon was charged by the Government with fraudulently selling $869,161 worth of grain which he had stored (for pay) for the Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corporation. Even though he was the first to be nabbed and one of the biggest, Shannon wasn't the only one. Lindsay Warren's General Accounting Office last week reported that CCC was short more than $3,800,000 in stored grain...
...estimated; Brannan testified that they, might run as high as $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. Some 30 warehouse operators are involved. Twelve have been hauled into court already, and investigation of the rest is in the works. The Agriculture Department also revealed that one Nebraska grain-elevator owner shot himself two days after he had been asked to deliver Government corn he was supposed to be storing...
...week later, Andy and Dave celebrated by getting married. The appropriate place was Davos, scene of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, where Dave had learned his skiing as a youngster. Their honeymoon included a trip West last summer, where Andy stayed in ski shape by heaving huge grain sacks, breaking a mare, and cooking chow for all hands at a Porcupine Gulch (Wyo.) ranch. Andy's admiring father-in-law, Laudy Lawrence, retired European manager for MGM, calls her a "regular hillbilly...