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...farm policy. Although it is solidly behind Benson, it scolded him in a resolution for removing "cross-compliance" regulations, which prohibit farmers who accept high support prices and quotas on one money crop from diverting acres made idle by their quotas to other surplus crops. The provision has been unpopular with some farmers and Farm Bloc Congressmen, but the Farm Bureau feared its loss would swell surpluses. The convention also resolved to oppose any attempt to revive high, rigid supports. As Benson himself put it in his convention speech: "Maximum progress can come only if agriculture is free . . . with...
...afraid that the imprisonment of the American filers will make the idea unpopular," Butcher said, "But unless we act now, it will soon be too late...
...position taken by the authors is common and understandable, but it is by no means justifiable. In a free society, when opinions become unpopular and dangerous it is most important that they be expressed. To yield to the "climate of fear," to become a scared liberal, is to strengthen the very forces which one opposes. Courage must complement conviction, for otherwise each man will become a rubber stamp content to spent the rest of his life echoing popular beliefs, never daring to dissent, never having courage enough to say what he thinks, and never living as an individual, but only...
...this stand, Segura has become almost as unpopular with many of his fellow Roman Catholics as with Protestants (a British Protestant weekly last month headlined an article on Protestants in Spain: "Pray for Your Brethren Behind the Incense Curtain."). Last week the news from Spain was that the Vatican has curbed crusty old Segura's powers. Rome evidently acted in full understanding with Spain's Dictator, Francisco Franco, whom Segura has often snubbed and attacked for 1) not supporting a Spanish monarchy and 2) allowing the Falange party to be too "anticlerical." The Holy See early this month...
...headless group of bosses was conflicting and shifting. At first he was to be dignified, and act like a statesman. Later in the campaign, he was ordered to attack the Democrats. In the end, he was to be constructive. When Wood invaded Pittsburgh, where Dave Lawrence's unpopular wage tax was a sitting duck, Wood ignored Lawrence, overlooked the burning issue. When Leader challenged him to a debate on the issues, Wood, who is also a farmer, responded with a challenge to a plowing contest. Leader replied that he would plow if Wood would debate. Wood dropped the whole...