Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they had written under Texans Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn. During the campaign, when President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon flailed at the Democrats as radicals, the near-unanimous Democratic reply was "Who? Me?" Few if any farm-belt Democrats campaigned for a return to Henry Wallace's Milk for Hottentots days or for the Truman Administration's Brannan Plan. Few marched to victory as all-out defenders of labor faith; indeed the great majority argued for reasonable labor reform. Where Democrats did get tagged as horseback liberals, they often lost, e.g., in Massachusetts, John Saltonstall...
Other Rockefeller and IBEC Venezuelan ventures: a thriving milk business, a hotel, a string of shopping centers, a mushrooming chain of supermarkets that have, by competition, forced Venezuelan food prices down to reasonable levels...
...outset, the liberal Houston Association of Better Schools, of which Mrs. White is a member, proved itself not quite liberal enough to ignore her race, refused to endorse her candidacy. But a milk-bottle collection in Houston's Negro districts boosted funds to some $4,000, and Candidate White began a hard campaign. Pointedly, she talked of issues, e.g., Houston schoolchildren pay 4? more a half-pint for lunchtime milk than children in surrounding districts because the hyperconservative school board has refused to accept federal aid. She did not orate for integration. But she visited Negro schools, some...
...years ended. The old man was a fiery red-head whose work in Ireland had netted him the title of "Rectifier of Liquors." He ran a chain of pubs in Cork and Queenstown, and "rectified" scotch and Irish whiskey to its correct proof after it was collected--much like milk from the farms--from the county's pot stills...
...proprietor will be a candidate-in-good-standing for membership in the Men's Auxiliary of the W.C.T.U. Jim Cronin has never touched a drop, and probably never will. "When I was a boy they told me something in Latin about moderation. And I haven't been weaned from milk...