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Word: indianan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whatever economic benefit they bring, or fail to bring to farmers, federal farm programs exact a toll in morale. TIME correspondents in all major agricultural regions found farmers who wanted to talk "off the record" about temptations to dishonesty under the program. One Indianan sold the topsoil off a field and put the barren ground into a soil bank; a group of Californians use soil-banked acres to start future fruit orchards. Says Lynn Larson, who holds a city job to fatten his lean income from a 2O9-acre farm near East Garland, Utah: "Under these federal programs, the farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE $5 BILLION FARM SCANDAL Every Day In Every Way It Gets Worse | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...week's end for the usual convention epilogue, Utah Committeeman Calvin Rawlings dutifully offered a resolution praising National Committee Chairman Paul M. Butler for the 1956 convention arrangements. Other committee members rose to add their praise. Suddenly, slender, intense Paul Butler was sobbing. When the white-haired Indianan had regained control of himself, he faced the committee. "I'm sure you do not realize," he said as his voice caught in his throat, "are writing my political epitaph. In a moment, I shall submit my resignation, and I urge you to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Tearful Epilogue | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

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