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...labor's support of farm programs). By the late 1930s, its ardor for the New Deal had cooled, and with the start of World War II the Farm Bureau's break with the Roosevelt Administration was com plete. In 1947, the election of Iowa Corn and Hog Farmer Allen Kline as president signaled the organization's move to the right. "Kline brought us to look at the economic issues in agriculture," Shuman explains. "His administration said, 'We want less government, not more.' It was a simple change, but pretty fundamental. I can't claim...
...right. Under President Oren Lee Staley, 42, N.F.O. (estimated membership: 200,000 in 25 states) maintains that the only workable approach to the farm problem is to control the flow of supplies to market. Staley claims that contracts with six of the nation's 15 major hog processors are now in effect, and that grain marketing is next on the agenda...
With the diverse interests of the organization's members-from Maine potato growers to Florida citrus farmers, California orchardists to Wisconsin dairymen, and hog, peanut, cotton, livestock, wheat, rice and corn growers scattered in between-it is a wonder that Shuman is able to make a coherent presentation on anything. Yet surveys by farm magazines show that a majority of the Farm Bureau's members approve of the organization's policies as articulated by Shuman...
Ironically, meat prices are high primarily because steer and hog prices last year hit a seven-year low. Farmers responded to that slump by cutting their herds and reducing their feed bills, with the result that fewer and leaner cattle are now coming to market. At the same time, the vegetable supply has been shortened by acts of nature: drought in the Maine and Long Island potato country, heavy rains in the carrot, onion and lettuce fields of the Southwest. Beyond this, the Government's recently imposed restrictions on Mexican braceros and other imported farm labor have reduced...
Washed-Up Diplomats. Backing up the dailies is the rebel Radio Santo Domingo, which calls Imbert a "hog-jawed monster." Last week it broadcast a false report that Imbert's wife had ducked out to Puerto Rico and was awaiting her husband. "The flight has begun," the commentator chirruped, "and just as in the height of the Trujillo reign, it is the women and children first, and then the murderers of the people." On a more modest level are quippy posters and house organs put out by various political parties, including a rebel sheet that uses as its slogan...