Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blessing in Abundance. Bitingly, he pointed to a decline in cotton, wheat, corn and rice prices since 1952, but noted that peanut prices have gone up slightly. "This administration has a fine record on peanuts," he laughed. But the farm price slide constitutes a "farm depression." From the past, Stevenson dragged out a familiar Democratic tactic: run against Herbert Hoover. The last time the Republicans succeeded in keeping "the stock market up and the farm market down," said Stevenson, "was the last time they were in office, with Hoover at the helm...
...arrival, dramatizing Tito's ties with the Soviet Union, could have been a deliberate attempt by the Russians to jeopardize these negotiations. Yugoslavs were not slow to point out that Khrushchev, with a bumper Soviet harvest reported this year, was in a position to cover the U.S. wheat offer, probably would like to impose this extra obligation on Tito...
...Colorado, Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan, author of the direct-subsidy, surplus-building Brannan Plan, discovered that his popularity with parity-conscious wheat growers and other farmers was not enough to offset ex-Representative John A. Carroll's edge in Carroll's home city of Denver, lost the Democratic senatorial nomination to Carroll 60,494 to 62,391. Carroll, defeated in the 1954 Senate race, faces ex-Governor Dan Thornton, 45, ardent Ikeman, in November...
...acts like a hulking (6 ft. 3 in., 220 lbs.), humble, approachable, kindly man. Says Minnesota Farmers Union President Ed Christianson: "It's because of his personality and the way he presents things to us. It's his speech and his manner.'' Explains Kansas Wheat Farmer Jerry Risely: "I met him in a restaurant and had a chance to talk to him. I thought he had something about him-that his words carried tremendous importance." Adds Minnesota Cattle Raiser Norman Hanson: "Stevenson doesn't come down to where the farmers are. Kefauver does...
Says Toynbee: Christians must winnow the nonessential chaff (mostly theology) from the wheat of their tradition, must abandon the "chosen people" claim to the uniqueness of their Saviour and their revelation. They must learn to regard all the higher religions as revelations of God. "The spirit of the Indian religions, blowing where it listeth, may perhaps help to winnow a traditional Pharisaism out of Moslem, Christian and Jewish hearts. But the help that God gives is given by Him to those who help themselves; and the spiritual struggle in the more exclusive-minded Judaic half of the world to cure...