Word: farmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each case, Webb argues, the party chose to support the minority against the majority. Then the party ran out of homesteads. After that, says Webb, "the Republican Party had no place at all for the farmer ... It compelled him to buy in a protected market and permitted him to sell in a free market with all the world as his competitor." Observes Webb: "Thus the Republican Party successively turned its back on one great segment of society after another, on the farmer, on small business, on labor. The party quit the people long before the people quit...
Except for the names on the Protestant cemetery's moss-covered tombstones, little now remains to show that the town was settled by Americans. Of the descendants of the original settlers, only the family of Dr. James R. Jones, a young dentist-farmer, clings to the old ways. "Doutor Jaime," his black-haired wife Judith (nee McKnight) and their two children still speak English at home; Doutor Jaime's brother, who married an Italian girl, speaks it only haltingly, "because I have no practice...
...time or another, he had spoken out for cuts in defense spending, greater economies in ECA operations, and a tighter rein on atomic energy appropriations. As for the farmer, Sawyer told a luncheon group in New Orleans' International House: "I don't hold with this idea of giving the farmer special treatment . . . No one has any idea how much the Brannan plan would cost. I think that's one place we could make big savings...
...from Craps. The twisting road which led Frank Costello to a tower apartment on Central Park West began in Cosenza, Italy, where, in 1891, he was born Francesco Castiglia, sixth child of a debt-burdened farmer. He was brought to New York when he was four; his father opened a hole-in-the-wall grocery on East 108th Street, and he was exposed early.to the neighborhood heroes: the torpedoes who worked for Giro Terranova, red-handed boss of the Unione Siciliana in Harlem and The Bronx...
...Vermont Farmer-Poet Robert Frost, 74, took a trip down to Manhattan to receive the Limited Editions Club's fifth gold medal for his Complete Poems, judged the book published in the last five years "most likely to attain the stature of a classic." Speaking to 300 breakfast guests, he became flustered for a moment and couldn't remember the opening lines of his famous poem about ants in a hive burying a fellow ant, which concludes...