Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie sat down and wrote a letter to big-fisted, fast-talking Allan B. Kline, wealthy Iowa hog breeder who had expected to become Tom Dewey's Secretary of Agriculture and whose position as Farm Bureau president made him leader of more than 1,400,000 of the richest, most influential U.S. farming families. It was only fair, the Secretary told Kline, that the federation let the Department of Agriculture explain its Brannan Plan before the delegates tried to pass judgment...
Lanky, leather-faced Aubrey Williams turned it around. He went whole hog for Harry Truman's Fair Deal, especially for his civil-rights program, hopes to make the Farmer a powerful political organ. Said he: "The Farmer is for any New Deal plan you can name." By last week Publisher Williams, 59, had about tripled Southern Farmer's circulation to 1,052,821, only a furrow's width behind the South's biggest farm publications, the Southern Agriculturist (circ. 1,103,034) and the Progressive Farmer (circ. 1,080,575),-but fields ap&rt in journalistic...
Abbot Otani is chief of the East Hog Won-Jt Buddhist Sector of Japan, which embraces six million members...
...spitting, spitting, spitting, while the women sat in a room apart and tittled and tattled by the hour. She made notes of their crude, fantastic speech, little suspecting that age and custom would lend much of it such a patina that such a horrendous phrase as "go the whole hog" would be used, in 1949, by a descendant of the Duke of Marlborough, addressing the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons...
...corn crop meant that a big pig crop was a certainty. Last week top hog prices dropped $1.25 per hundredweight in Chicago, to only $2 above the $18.50 level at which the Government must start supporting hogs and thus add another expense to the support program...