Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your recent snide remarks about Ike's "vacations" are in poor taste. As Uncle Lem over in Vermont said: "When I go to Florida, I don't take the cows with me, and I can forget all about the chores. That feller in Washington can't seem to ever be able to do likewise...
Hero Owen Jedd Wiley is a Vermont-born Marine lieutenant stationed in Haiti during the early '30s. He smokes little and drinks less; the tropics wear but do not beat him. On Stateside leave, he meets a Smith girl named Isabel Bogardus, and highbred, high-strung Isabel shocks Owen by bedding down with him amidst the ancestral stones of an old cemetery. They return to Haiti man and wife...
From Lincoln Isham, a Vermont-based great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln, the Library of Congress got an old family Bible and three Lincoln manuscripts. Among them: a draft of a letter from Lincoln to an Illinois friend concerning the merits of re-electing a Congressman, Richard Yates, later governor of Illinois. The malicious word had spread that Yates had the same weakness that was to create complaints about General Ulysses S. Grant. Wrote Honest Abe, in endorsing Yates: "Other things being equal, I would much prefer a temperate man to an intemperate one. Still, I do not make my vote...
...Republican Senators are up for re-election and intend to make records they can run on. To Midwestern Congressmen Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson is anathema, and they will fight his election-year proposal to cut farm subsidies (TIME. Jan. 27); even so loyal an Administration supporter as Vermont's venerable George Aiken has publicly turned on Benson and his works. More worried about such a simple political issue as rising unemployment than anything else, many an Atlantic Seaboard legislator will fight Ike's program for a five-year renewal of the reciprocal trade agreement act. (G.O.P. leaders...
...attack steamed up, even Vermont's once friendly Republican George Aiken turned his back on Ezra Benson...