Word: backs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month Boone's own Kansas farm-bureau convention voted for the first time in its history to back a program 1) abolishing all acreage controls on wheat, 2) dropping price supports from today's $1.80 to $1.30 per bu. Nebraska and Colorado farm-bureau conventions voted for similar programs, in effect backed the position of U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson and American Farm Bureau federation President Charles Shuman...
...Repsholdt squared his shoulders, continued: "One thing is fortunate. If there is any shortage more acute than the shortage in housing, it is the shortage of teachers. I'm not frightened about losing my job." Repsholdt got a big hand for his stand. But he did not roll back the angry majority, which, on a show of hands, had vowed all-out opposition to the integrated subdivision. Murmured one North Shore householder as Deerfielders signed up for the fight "We just can't afford to be democratic...
...tracing the history of the .25-cal. automatic, the police uncovered a bizarre twist of circumstance: the same pistol had been used as a suicide weapon in Washington back in 1934 by a Commerce Department official who had borrowed it from the owner. The owner got it back from the District of Columbia police, later sold it to a gun shop, where Bang-Jensen bought it in 1941 to use in case he found Nazi agents prowling around the legation of the Danish government in exile...
...week's end, Nikita Khrushchev returned to Moscow from a brief Black Sea vacation, and made it back from Moscow's airport to the Kremlin courtyard in an eight-seat Soviet helicopter, which he pronounced "roomier and more comfortable" than Ike's Sikorsky. Next on Khrushchev's travel plans: a flight to Budapest to attend that mockery of "domestic jurisdiction," the Hungarian Communist Party Congress...
...general election that swept the British Conservatives back to power last October left more than the defeated Laborites worried by Labor's defeat. In a country that invented the political theory of the Loyal Opposition and governs itself by the swing of the party pendulum, what kind of alternative choice is there in a doctrinaire and out-of-date party that had won only two general elections in half a century, and had just gone down to defeat for the third time...