Word: shuman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abolishing all acreage controls on wheat, 2) dropping price supports from today's $1.80 to $1.30 per bu. Nebraska and Colorado farm-bureau conventions voted for similar programs, in effect backed the position of U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson and American Farm Bureau federation President Charles Shuman...
...within 15 seconds. Each of the two exchanges will retain its own officers and employees, appoint four representatives to Pacific Coast's board of governors, alternate the post of chairman between the two cities. Chairman for the first year: William H. Agnew, partner of San Francisco's Shuman, Agnew...
Also, Lynne P. Hofer, History and Literature; Therese Jaeger, History and Literature; Maeda Jurkowitz, Social Relations; Mary E. Marshall, History and Literature; Margaret V. Means, English; Susan A. Morford, Social Relations; Paula Omansky, Government; Joan Shuman, History; Beverly F. Stewart, English; Elizabeth A. Williams, Classics and related literatures...
...conservative giant of U.S. farm organizations, with membership representing 1,623,000 farm families in 48 states and Puerto Rico, heavily concentrated in the corn belt states of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana (the Farm Bureau is sometimes facetiously called "The American Corn Bureau"). President: roughhewn, painfully serious Charles B. Shuman, 49, an Illinois stock and grain farmer, and a teetotaling Methodist Sunday school teacher. The American Farm Bureau grew out of the agricultural recession after World War I, aligned itself with the relatively low stopgap subsidy policies of the Roosevelt Administration in the 1930s, saw the ruinous results of subsidized...
...POCKETS . . . WE WANT YOU TO SIGN IT, AND THEN PICK UP THAT LITTLE WHITE TELEPHONE ON YOUR DESK AND CALL EZRA BENSON AND TELL HIM: "EZRA, YOU'RE THROUGH." But the head of the nation's biggest (1,623,000 families) farm organization, President Charles B. Shuman of the American Farm Bureau Federation, held firm against the bill. Illinois Corn-Cattle Fanner Shuman called it "utterly bad legislation-representing a strictly political approach to a very serious-economic problem...