Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Life: Born in Normanby Township, Ont., Sept. 18. 1895. His father (a schoolteacher, later a farmer and civil servant) and mother were third-generation Canadians. When he was eight, the family moved to wheat-growing, western Saskatchewan, where John Diefenbaker helped break the land, fought prairie fires. Took political-science and law degrees at the University of Saskatchewan...
...Wheat & Chaff. But raw FBI reports, in the words of Director J. Edgar Hoover, may "allege crimes of a most despicable type, and the truth or falsity of these charges may not emerge until several reports are studied, further investigation made and the wheat separated from the chaff." The usual court practice has therefore been for the trial judge to screen the reports as to their relevance and competence before turning them over to the defense for use in crossexamination. The judge-as-screener procedure was what the Jencks defense asked at the trial. Government attorneys were willing...
Kasim Gulek, leader of the opposition Republican People's Party, criticized the government for not raising wheat prices even more. The Freedom Party's Feridun Ergin pointed an inflationary moral: "This new price will not satisfy the farmers. In 1951 it took 400 kilos of wheat to buy a good suit of clothes. In 1957 it takes 860." Others predicted that the new wheat price increase would have to be financed by printing 60 million to 70 million pounds of new currency, thus further reducing the value of the Turkish pound, which already could be bought...
...Italy's Po River Valley is fertile soil for the seeds of discontent. There, in a densely overpopulated farmland whose every square mile must support 470 people, 80,000 field hands seek work on a puny 132,000 acres of farmland, get their wages-if any-in the wheat and sugar-beet yield of the land itself. With holdings averaging 20 acres or less apiece, the farmers are themselves poor, bitter, hard pressed. For years the richest harvest reaped in the Valley has been one of violence, distrust and hatred...
Despite the Tory leader's emergence as an aggressive, often eloquent campaigner, he had only regional discontents to fan for votes; e.g., the Western farmers' fears that the government would be unable to empty the West's wheat-glutted bins, the depressed Atlantic Provinces' need for federal economic aid. Though he argued effectively that the Liberal Party has grown fat and overbearing after 22 years in office, the Liberals outflanked him by pointing to a record of peace and plenty...