Word: neale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm policies of the New Deal were, as much as any man's, the handiwork of an affable Alabama cotton farmer named Ed O'Neal. As president of the powerful American Farm Bureau Federation, O'Neal's influence was instrumental in pushing ever higher support prices and ever stricter production controls through Congress. The natural history of lobbies indicated that the Farm Bureau would feed on success, ask for more and more and more...
After World War II, however, the Farm Bureau began to have second thoughts. In 1947, when aging Ed O'Neal retired, the strongest farm lobby in the U.S. replaced O'Neal with Allan Blair Kline, a prosperous Iowa hog farmer (who had managed well enough during the Depression to build a swimming pool on his farm). Kline damned controls, helped kill the Brannan Farm Plan and then helped Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson push a flexible price-support law through Congress this year. Last week at the Farm Bureau's annual convention at New York, President...
Invasion of Privacy. In Cincinnati, after police pumped out a dose of heroin that Joseph Neal, 26, had swallowed to avoid arrest on a narcotics charge, Neal loudly demanded his freedom, argued that the evidence had been obtained without a search warrant...
...Salt Lake City, when Attorney General E. R. Callister proposed publicly that the death sentence be abolished, the first favorable letter he received was signed: "Don Jesse Neal, Death Row, Utah State Prison...
...Neal Hastie '52, Graduate Secretary of P.B.H., said the attack on discrimination is two-fronted. Not only is it aimed at the bigoted landlord, but also against a prejudiced student...