Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unless there is a vast and unexpected expansion in the domestic and foreign markets, the Republican belief that there are too many farmers must be accepted as the most realistic, if not the most humanitarian approach. Both parties have made similar suggestions on how to enlarge the market--increased distribution to schools, the needy in this country, and abroad. But foreign markets are limited because any large-scale sales or grants driven down prices on the world market. Such a move would hurt if not ruin the economies of many friendly nations...
...main and most controversial method for cutting production is flexible price supports. This Republican proposal would lower price supports, encouraging if not forcing farmers to reduce the supply and thus drive the price up again. Democrats maintain that under flexible supports, as profits go down, farmers try to earn more by producing more, not less. Recent statistics would seem to support the Republicans. Under flexible supports, the surplus was reduced from $8.9 billion to $8.1 from January to July of this year. In the third quarter of 1956, net farm income went up for the first time since...
Flexible supports appear not only to work in the short run, but they also show promise of helping to solve the long-range problem. The Republican plan keeps constant pressure on the farmer to cut production of non-profitable crops. In the short run the farmer might produce more, but as his margin of profit gets lower and lower, he will either leave the farm, or encourage his children to. The farmer who will move first is the one who is most inefficient, usually the family farmer...
Boston figures especially in the campaign, for several key Democratic precincts are wavering. For instance, in Roxbury's Jewish and Negro Ward 12, a white Democrat faces a Negro Republican. The Republicans, of course, hope to sway the Negro vote, while the Democrats are concentrating on holding the line by playing up the rent control issue. These precincts are vital for either side to win. Stevenson supporters figure that he must carry Boston by at least 125,000 votes if he is to secure the state's 16 electoral votes. In 1952, Stevenson had a margin of only...
...most important role of the President in today's world is world leadership, and on this key issue the campaign must revolve. For despite the Republican orators, the world is neither peaceful nor prosperous. Over half the world still goes hungry every night, and rumblings in Asia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East are far from comforting. But comfort cannot be expected, for ideological, political, and economic revolutions are sweeping the world, and will continue to do so for decades. The question is, can America lead these revolutions, or must it sit by and watch until too late...