Word: farmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farmer-Politician Kline chucked a juicy tomato right back at Brannan. "The implication in your letter . . . that a group of free American citizens cannot objectively discuss both sides of questions of policy unless the discussion is guided by some federal appointee can hardly be made seriously. Our members are remarkably well-informed on public-policy matters and . . . particularly well-informed with respect to your own proposal. It has been thoroughly discussed...
...Yeah!" They cheered again when he lambasted Charlie Brannan's plan: "This is the road to tyranny . . . The people who are supporting this plan are either very dumb or they're simply dishonest." The whole plan would work out, cried Kline, to the disadvantage of the efficient farmer, "the guy who has tried to keep his hogs sweet and healthy and with a quirk in their tails...
...that face the mainland; others have been sent to Sun's U.S.-style training camps in the south. The Formosans, who spent 50 years before World War II under Japanese rule, are getting used to the Chinese soldiery. "A country must have soldiers to have peace," said one farmer. "The ones in our village seldom bother us any more...
White Tie & Overalls. In Texas one of Hendl's most spectacular achievements was his engineering of a musical rapprochement between Dallas and its bitter rival, Fort Worth, 35 miles away. One afternoon last month Hendl, in overalls and a farmer's straw hat, conducted a successful children's concert in Fort Worth. That evening, in white tie, he gave their elders a solid program of Bach, Mozart and Stravinsky. Forthwith, Fort Worth Flour Miller Edwin Bewley Jr. persuaded a group of his fellow citizens to form a Fort Worth Symphony Society. Its purpose: to promote further concerts...
...Farmers: "The Brannan plan is a fraud on its face because it seeks to guarantee high prices to the farmer as well as the price the consumer would be willing to pay, with the difference being met by the taxpayer. It is a fraud because the farmer and the consumer are the taxpayers...