Word: sumpter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were disturbed because he had proposed lower price supports than a more generous Congress decided they merited. (At his press conference Carter expressed sympathy for the plight of many farmers but said that he would not have participated in their strike if he were still working the land in Sumpter County, Ga.) Labor was miffed because he did not put up protectionist walls against imports, and wanted him to endorse a larger increase in the minimum wage. Many women were antagonized by his opposition to federally paid abortions for the poor. Blacks and big-city mayors were upset that...
...POLICE GAZETTE Edited by Gene Smith and Jayne Barry Smith. 208 pages. Simon & Schuster. $12.50. A collection of articles and illustrations from the granddaddy of all schlock journalism. The Gazette, which began publication in 1846, was unequaled for its sensationalism ("The foolish son of Colonel Sumpter, a wealthy politician of Hot Springs, Ark., marries a member of the St. Louis, Mo., demi-monde") and bigotry ("Sheeny Abortionist Beast Trapped by Brave Beauty"). Yet it nevertheless recorded the rapacity, brutality and savage energy of the Gilded...