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...need to woo the farm vote seems likely to keep the Administration from raising the voluntary quotas enough to make much difference. Speaking to the National Livestock Feeders Association in Omaha last week, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz declared: "I say, isn't it about time that beef prices got up to levels of 20 years ago? After all, farmers' costs are 50% higher than 20 years...
...defeat marked the end of DePriest's political career. The year before Mayor Cermak had been assassinated in Florida by a bullet aimed at President Roosevelt, and Cermak was succeeded by Edward J. Kelly. As Mayor, Kelly made an even more intensive effort than Big Bill Thompson had to woo Chicago's ever-increasing black vote. Reading the handwriting on the wall, William Dawson, who after DePriest's defeat was the leading black Republican in the city, switched parties in 1938. Dawson's election to Congress in '43 coupled with that of Adam Clayton Powell two years later finalized...
Chapter One presents a thumbnail sketch of the golden years of rock and roll, as viewed by Guralnick while growing up around Boston. It's a few quick steps from Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsberg to the Club 47 folk revival to Leadbelly to the blues. Guralnick then spends exactly one chapter on the history of the blues, intended primarily for the benefit of the beginner. ("For our purposes I think it is enough to say that the blues came out of Mississippi, sniffed around in Memphis and then settled in Chicago where it is most likely it will peacefully live...
...Faith Brigham Young was a Mormon bold, And a leader of the roaring rams, And a shepherd of a heap of pretty little sheep, And a nice fold of pretty little Jambs, And he lived with his five andforty wives, In the city of great Salt Lake Where they woo and coo as pretty doves do, And cackle like ducks to a drake...
...first gathering of the nation's Governors since the November elections, when the Republicans' 32-18 margin in the statehouses faded into a 29-21 Democratic majority. With the state executives in Washington, the White House worked overtime to woo their support for the revenue-sharing plan President Nixon promoted in his State of the Union message. There was a black-tie dinner at the White House featuring Bob Hope; there were pep talks from Vice President Spiro Agnew and Treasury Secretary John Connally, a briefing with jazzy slides and graphs from Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman...