Word: haugenism
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...McNary-Haugen Bill is the most famed remedy for the farmer's ills. Its most easily comprehended elements...
Over against the McNary-Haugen scheme is the position assumed by the Administration. It favors the extension of co-operative marketing for farmers but by farmers. In this school of thought, the only proper role for the Federal Government is to offer advice and disseminate information...
...direst opponents of the McNary-Haugen Bill are opponents of all government-going-into-business schemes. The biggest farmer in the world is Thomas D. Campbell of Montana. As an important example he is vital to any farm discussion. He says, in effect, that the very idea of "a farmer" is obsolescent foolishness, that he ought to be put in a museum along with the dodo and the cobbler and the individual candlestick maker...
Authors McNary & Haugen. The Senator joint-author of the McNary-Haugen bill is Charles Linza McNary who did not stay down on the Oregon farm where he was born. Leland Stanford Jr. University (Calif.) and private tutors educated him. A lawyer and gentleman, he became Dean of an Oregon law school, whence he was elevated to the bench. In Washington, the characteristic thing about him is not that he is Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee but that he is a member of the Committee on Committees. The latter requires political finesse, conversation (not oratory), the dispassionate manipulation of other...
...Congressman-author is Gilbert Nelson Haugen, a sincere, likable old politician, who was reared in Wisconsin and rose in Iowa. He never had much education, has doubtless gone further than his father thought he would. He has never permitted either his ambitions or insidious urban barbers to run away with his rural idea of a proper tonsure...