Word: farmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same ridiculous law, now under attack by Ike as well as radio and TV stations, bars the station from "censorship" of what candidates say. Back in 1956, WDAY in Fargo, N. Dak. granted equal time to A. C. Townley, independent candidate for U.S. Senator (he lost), and a farmer association attacked in Townley's speech sued WDAY for damages. Ruled the Court, 5 to 4: since WDAY was only doing what federal law said it had to do, it was not liable under the state's libel laws...
...time we are cutting down on their bills. I don't understand it.") In the $4.6 billion farm-appropriation bill, both houses voted a ceiling on individual farm subsidies to put a stop to subsidy millionaires, but in the final maneuvering it was raised from $50,000 per farmer to $50,000 per crop. ¶ The Senate overrode a favorite project of Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bill Fulbright (and the State Department): putting the Foreign Aid Development Loan Fund on a five-year basis by the device of borrowing $1 billion annually from the Treasury. In mid-debate. South...
...criticized the reform as "confiscatory," planned a $500,000 advertising campaign against it. Castro called the cattlemen "counterrevolutionary," a capital offense in Castro's Cuba. His soldiers picked up and jailed Félix Fernández Pérez, president of the Rustic Estate Owners, a tobacco farmer and rancher and onetime Castro supporter, now an outspoken critic (TIME, June 22). Then Castro summoned press, labor and government delegates from all over the hemisphere to Cuba this week to hear him explain what a good idea land reform...
...studios of Radio Baghdad; when Communists tried to organize a "local policing committee" to monitor radio broadcasts, the army commander broke up the meeting. In the countryside, Communists tried to take over Kassem's land-reform scheme through the recently formed National Federation of Peasants' Associations. Fifty farmers decided to take their complaints to the Premier himself, marched into Baghdad carrying a large portrait of Kassem and a long list of anti-Communist complaints, including the fact that the Communist president of the National Federation of Peasants' Associations is not even a farmer but a former hospital...
...according to colonial practice, any man could become an officer who recruited enough soldiers to serve under him. When New Hampshire asked for men to protect the interior, 23-year-old Farmer Rogers presented himself with 50 volunteers and was made a captain...