Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politicians, gathered in biennial convention to 1) urge federal farm subsidies ever onward and upward, 2) call for the scalp of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson-and 3) elect onetime Typewriter Salesman James G. Patton, 55, to his 13th consecutive term as president of the liberal National Farmers Union. Cried Jim Patton, sounding the N.F.U.'s anti-Administration theme: "Our patience has been imposed upon by those in power chiseling away at nearly every program farmers worked so hard to build...
...private, rawboned, wavy-haired Jim Patton scarcely ever raises his voice above persuasive conversational tones. But in public, his is the loudest if not the wisest Democratic voice in U.S. agriculture. He speaks through the National Farmers Union, with its 750,000 members (see map), and a network of N.F.U.-run magazines, newspapers, pamphlets and radio programs. Patton's upper councils are a Democratic Farm Cabinet-in-exile: Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan is the N.F.U.'s general counsel; Wesley McCune, onetime Democratic National Committee farm specialist, is the public-relations director; Leon Keyserling, chairman...
...Business. But if Jim Patton's N.F.U. is big political business, it is also big money business, with a vested interest in high farm subsidies-the higher the better. The N.F.U.-founded Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association is worth $33 million, reaps about a $3.5 million cash harvest each year in Government payments for storing grain surpluses stimulated by N.F.U. high-subsidy policies. Among other N.F.U. interests...
Last week Alcan revealed that it began granting a 2% "loyalty" discount to British buyers three months ago, has asked the British Board of Trade to impose an anti-dumping duty on Red imports. Just as alarmed by heavy imports of cheaper Russian ferroalloys, Union Carbide, Ltd. is pondering a similar bid to the board...
...Venetians, Turks and British. By 1953, when Author Lawrence (Justine) Durrell (TIME, Aug. 26) arrived in Cyprus in search of a writer's low-cost retreat, the Greek Cypriots (four-fifths of the population) were scrawling their own historic handwriting on the village walls: "Enosis and only enosis" (union, i.e., with Greece...