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...attack railroad operators while he championed the poor, neglected passengers. Crusader Bob's most effective ploy was a cartoon of a pig. fat and sassy in his freight car, looking down on a bedraggled, luggage-laden human traveler and his family changing trains. Hooted the ad: "A hog can cross the country without changing trains...
...when New York State switched to an elective judiciary-and paved the way for the reign of Boss Tweed. Other states followed suit, and as Judge Vanderbilt says, the "judges campaigned for judicial office in the hustings with the other candidates of the political parties from sheriff to hog reeve." Today all the judges of 36 states are elected political officers...
Canada's Foreign Affairs Chief Lester ("Mike"") Pearson was one statesman who saw the week's developments in Washington (see U.S. AFFAIRS) as a quick way to 1) assure two Chinas, 2) hog-tie Chiang Kaishek, and 3) get the Chinese Reds into...
After World War II, however, the Farm Bureau began to have second thoughts. In 1947, when aging Ed O'Neal retired, the strongest farm lobby in the U.S. replaced O'Neal with Allan Blair Kline, a prosperous Iowa hog farmer (who had managed well enough during the Depression to build a swimming pool on his farm). Kline damned controls, helped kill the Brannan Farm Plan and then helped Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson push a flexible price-support law through Congress this year. Last week at the Farm Bureau's annual convention at New York, President...
Iowa: Republican Thomas Ellsworth Martin, 61, scored the election's big success for the Ezra Benson farm program by upsetting Old Campaigner Guy Gillette. Lawyer Martin waged an energetic but unimaginative campaign, spouting hog-price and corn-hog-ratio quotations across the state. He will move up to the Senate after 16 unspectacular years in the House...