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With that assurance, President Oren Lee Staley of the militant National Farmers Organization last week announced what everyone in the building had come to cheer-a strike against food processors to force higher prices for many farm products. "This is a battle for survival of family-type agriculture," said Staley...
...only U.S. county to close all its public schools rather than desegregate them is Virginia's Prince Edward (pop. 14,000), whose schoolhouse doors have stayed shut for three years. Last week Federal District Judge Oren R. Lewis rejected Prince Edward's elaborate device to avoid obeying the law of the land...
...noes" echoed across the House floor, the Administration was deserted by many of its own leaders, including Louisiana's Hale Boggs and Arkansas' Wilbur Mills and Oren Harris. "I certainly never thought we'd get a licking like that,'' said New Jersey's Frank Thompson, author of the compromise bill, when the voting was done. "We lost some guys out there who wouldn't dare vote against the bill itself if it actually got to the floor...
...open defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia's tobacco-growing Prince Edward County (pop. 14,120) closed down all its public schools in June 1959 rather than desegregate them. The doors have stayed shut ever since-but last week Federal District Judge Oren R. Lewis shoved Prince Edward a long way closer toward compliance with the law of the land...
...surprise of many a banker, Governor Nelson Rockefeller appointed Non-Banker Oren Root, 50, to be New York's new state banking superintendent. Energetic Lawyer Root, who, at 28, helped set off the Willkie-for-President boom, is a grandnephew of Elihu Root, Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt, and a son-in-law of Movie Magnate Spyros Skouras. Under New York's new Omnibus Banking Law, Root will rule on the merger applications of some of the world's biggest banks...