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...were some who talked like Corn &Hog Raiser Carroll Brown of Oskaloosa, Iowa. "When the farmer asks too much," he reasoned, "the rest of the guys may gang up on us some of these days and we'll get nothing." There were those who felt like C. B. Skipper of Georgia: "The Brannan Plan? I'm against it. I don't like to feel that anybody is giving me anything. The way things work now, I don't feel like anybody is giving me a handout." And there were, above all, farmers who spoke out like...
Dick Braisted, consistent dinghy winner, will skipper the "Troubador," while Tom Pearson will navigate. The crew roster includes John Bishop, Phil Buckner, Humphery Doermann, John Gardner, Dave Lee, Phil Scullin, and Hal Willcox...
...Hence, Skipper Braisted hopes that the 1948 race conditions will again prevail; at that time all but 65 miles of the run was a reach. The "Troubador" recently raced in the Miami-Nassau race, doing well, while her sister ship, the "Astrea" won the class B title in the March St. Petersburg-Havana race...
...council's annual convention in Chicago and prepared to move over. To take the place he had resigned, effective next January, the council named Dr. Arthur Stanton Adams, 53, president of the University of New Hampshire, a 1918 graduate of the Naval Academy, and onetime submarine skipper...
...Mexican coast guard changed the shrimpers with poaching in Mexican territorial waters five miles out, and fined each skipper 5,000 pesos ($580). The shrimpers protested the fine and insisted that they were at least ten miles offshore. The Mexicans said that they had no intention of keeping Americans from fishing off their coast, but wished only to keep foreign shrimp boats under license and control...