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Smith got elected; Charlie Binaggio swaggered around the state capital at Jefferson City, dropped in casually to see the governor. At the big Kansas City dinner for Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle, Binaggio planted himself right in front of the President of the U.S., sat cheek by jowl with such notables as Attorney General Howard McGrath and Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington...
...Quarterly cited the case of a Jefferson County (Ind.) farmer who normally uses all of his corn for feed. He had such a bumper crop in 1948 that he cribbed his 904-bushel surplus, put it under Government seal in 1949 and got a $1,319 loan at the $1.47-a-bushel support price less charges. Then a neighbor told him he was a fool: he could put his entire crop under loan at the support price, then buy all the corn he needed for feed at 65½ a bushel in the cash market. In short, by selling...
...officially pronounced closed. Henry Nash Smith starts out by describing the early lack of interest in penetrating the continental interior. The majority of the British, intensely preoccupied with the continued development of their maritime commercial empire, opposed westward expansion. Yet a small group led by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson wrote prophetically of the extraordinary agrarian possibilities of the interior as well as its importance as an overland route to the Pacific...
...observations lead me to believe that there are two Duck Hawk on Mem Hall, a falcon (female) and a tercelet (male). They spend a good deal of time around Jefferson as well as pigeons, a fact which should weigh in their favor. Incidentally, there was a Duck Hawk around during the entire time of the Great Owl Episode last year...
...Jefferson and Hamilton; each a luminous representative of his own view of life; each essential for the health of the republic; and each forever opposed to the other. It is doubtful it in all their lives they could have found one point of agreement, except the need for American independence. They wore such perfect opposites that to this day most Americans make a cult of one or the other; few are able to do justice to both...