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Resentment of small-town bankers is boiling. Some say that they now get the silent treatment on the street, and a few have been assaulted by angry customers. Nebraska farmers have taken to wearing black armbands to protest foreclosures. Bankers have also become the target of a bitter joke making the rounds in the Midwest: "Question: What's the difference between a dead skunk on the road and a dead loan officer? Answer: There are skid marks by the skunk." That kind of talk deeply offends the bankers, who in many cases grew up with and went to school with...
That did it. "This Administration obviously doesn't give a cocklebur for rural America," stormed Democratic Senator James Exon of Nebraska. E. ("Kika") de la Garza, the Texas Democrat who heads the House Agriculture Committee, sneered that what Stockman was really saying was "Let's cut off the arms and legs of the patient. Then he'll be 30 lbs. lighter and less of a burden." Farm Belt Republicans were equally outraged. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, in a letter to Stockman, asked him to "please refrain from sermonizing on the free market, which seems most hypocritical from a Government...
...improvement whatever in the farm economy, they could continue their operations for two to five years / before they would be completely wiped out." Meanwhile, those farmers are in no position to buy tractors, cars, clothes or much of anything; their troubles are dragging down the whole economy in Iowa, Nebraska, northern Missouri, southern Minnesota, western Illinois, Kansas and other parts of the grain belt...
...author states succinctly in his preface. The Glory of Their Times is the story of the early days of baseball told by the men who played it. This is the age of people like Cy Seymour and Zack Wheat playing ball in places like Wahoo Nebraska and Marlin Texas. Taking time out from his position as professor of Finance at New York University and board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Ritter traveled some 75,000 miles lugging his tape recorder around America in search of some of the shortstops of yesteryear. Some were easy to find...
TOUGHEST STAND. The University of Miami foiling a two-point conversion last January and upsetting the great Nebraska...