Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mark Hanna who could ruin T.R.'s influence by blocking his nomination in 1904. So T.R., ruthlessly shrugging off Hanna's loyal promises to cooperate, condemned Hanna to political death. Method of death: rapid-fire dismissal of pro-Hanna Republicans from patronage jobs in Hanna's Midwestern strongholds, installation of pro-T.R. types-"the right sort...
...Foss, blamed for rising real estate taxes, won 1956 re-election by only 25,000 votes -and the First District does not include his areas of greatest strength. But Foss's greatest handicap this year is the same that got George McGovern elected in the first place: the Midwestern protest against Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson for proposing lower farm subsidies-which has not subsided one whit...
Ready to Fight. Nowhere is this new every-man-on-his-own attitude clearer than in Congress, where all House members and 21 Republican Senators are up for re-election and intend to make records they can run on. To Midwestern Congressmen Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson is anathema, and they will fight his election-year proposal to cut farm subsidies (TIME. Jan. 27); even so loyal an Administration supporter as Vermont's venerable George Aiken has publicly turned on Benson and his works. More worried about such a simple political issue as rising unemployment than anything else, many...
...packers hope that the system will, do for hogs what it has done for poultry. Ten years ago broilers were raised mostly by Midwestern farmers as a sideline. Then the feed companies began making contracts to raise chickens, concentrating on less successful farmers, many in the South. The feedmen supplied broiler raisers with chicks, feed and a guaranteed purchase price, usually 2? per Ib. With the new methods, Southern farmers cut the broiler cycle from 15 weeks to 9, upped production 1,620% in Alabama, 1,454% in Mississippi in a decade...
Ever since his Midwestern utilities empire collapsed in scandal in the 1930s, the late Samuel Insull has served a generation of writers as a bogy of financial skulduggery. Samuel Insull Jr., 57, once his father's righthand man and now a Chicago insurance salesman, bore up steadily under the legacy. Last week he rebelled...