Word: pattons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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National Farmers Union, Denver. Essentially the farm organ of Trumanite Democrats, with a voice that seems higher than its membership: 308,000 family memberships in 25 states, strongest in the wheat-growing states of North Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma and Minnesota. President: loose-jointed, Kansas-born James G. Patton, 53, onetime high-school athletic director. General counsel: ex-President Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan. Economic adviser: Leon Keyserling, chairman of Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. The Farmers Union was organized in Texas in 1902 by a few farmers and a country editor, and was dedicated to improving...
...Utterly Bad." Two national farm organizations, the Grange and the left-of-center Farmers Union, urged the President, to sign. Farmers Union President James Patton shot off a sardonic telegram to the President's vacation headquarters at Augusta, Ga.: WHILE YOU ARE GOLFING IN AUGUSTA, AFTER THE NINTH HOLE OF YOUR GAME, WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL PAUSE TO GIVE SOME CONSIDERATION TO THE AMERICAN FAMILY FARMER. WE FARMERS MUST HAVE MORE MONEY IN OUR POCKETS . . . WE WANT YOU TO SIGN IT, AND THEN PICK UP THAT LITTLE WHITE TELEPHONE ON YOUR DESK AND CALL EZRA BENSON AND TELL...
...qualified for the Masters. He had been the choice of former Masters winners (who have one invitation to give) mostly on the strength of his upset victory over Amateur Champion Harvie Ward in last month's San Francisco city championship. Sent off, appropriately enough, with Amateur Billy Joe Patton, who led the field to the halfway mark two years ago, Venturi did everything right. His drives were true, his irons crisp and sure. Not once did he take more than two putts a hole. But he was being pushed hard by some tough pros: the defending champ, Dentist Cary...
...Running under ideal conditions at Bakersfield, Calif., Trinidad's Mike Agostini, a Fresno State College sophomore, ran a straightaway 220-yd dash in :20.1 to break the world's record (:20.2) set in 1949 by Southern California's Mel Patton. ¶| James Ray Jordan, 36, a California aircraft worker with a great desire to set a world record, achieved his heart's desire by tanking up on pure oxygen for two minutes, dropping to the bottom of a heated San Diego swimming pool and holding his breath for 8 min. 3½ sec. to crack...
...PROMOTER THRIVES ON THE INDIFFERENCE OF THE CONSUMER CREDIT COMMUNITY; HE IS PHOTOSENSITIVE, AND IN THE GLARE OF TIME'S SEARCHLIGHT WILL SOON DISAPPEAR. PRICE A. PATTON CHICAGO...