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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie sat down and wrote a letter to big-fisted, fast-talking Allan B. Kline, wealthy Iowa hog breeder who had expected to become Tom Dewey's Secretary of Agriculture and whose position as Farm Bureau president made him leader of more than 1,400,000 of the richest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Rustle in the Grass Roots | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Farmer-Politician Kline chucked a juicy tomato right back at Brannan. "The implication in your letter . . . that a group of free American citizens cannot objectively discuss both sides of questions of policy unless the discussion is guided by some federal appointee can hardly be made seriously. Our members are remarkably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Rustle in the Grass Roots | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Clanging Plowshare. Republican Kline had made no secret of his opposition to Brannan's plan, with its proposal for high prices on the farm, low prices in the grocery store, and Government subsidies to pay the difference. Kline favored instead a "sliding scale" parity program with a minimum of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Rustle in the Grass Roots | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The answer was quick in coming, and it was made in tones as sharp and ringing as the clang of a plowshare on granite. When Leader Kline rose up to speak, in the gilt-&-crystal ballroom of Chicago's Stevens hotel, the 3,500 listeners burst into a roaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Rustle in the Grass Roots | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

As a kid in short pants, James E. Glynn used to shunt wooden blocks across the kitchen floor and make believe he was turning the big wheels of commerce. But when he had to go to work right after grammar school as an extra hand on the New York Central...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: Dead End | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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