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Stolid Dr. Charles E. Friley, president of Iowa State College, at first tried to protect his corn-belt Don Quixote from the dairymen's fury, mumbled about academic freedom. But then he himself was summoned to a meeting of 100 angry Iowa milk producers. Orated Francis Johnson, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation : "The farmers are alarmed over this tendency to make Iowa State College a tax-supported Harvard. They're not ashamed of the 'cow college' label...
...Deal food-stamp plan. If Perkins' firing had not been a certainty before, it became definite last week when he made a pep talk to 1,700 BEW employes and one uninvited reporter (Virginia Pasley, of the Washington Times-Herald). Henry Wallace kept mum and tended the corn in his Washington victory garden. But Milo Perkins told the BEW workers that Mr. Wallace's attack on Jones was what "any red-blooded American" would do when he turned over a rock and saw "slimy things crawling" under...
...Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. John...
...castigate farmers who hoard their grain for higher prices, the Kansas City Grain Market Review last week turned to the Bible, dug up a dire admonition: "He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him; but blessings shall be upon the head of him that selleth it." (Proverbs...
There were some youngish soldiers & sailors who were there to hear Dinah Shore, on the same program, and who thought the Rhythm Boys leaned slightly toward the corn. But to many who had grown up with the syncopated ditty, Mississippi Mud seemed a solid, perdurable part of U.S. musical history...