Word: hobgoblin
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Freeman maintains in a recent New York Times Magazine article that "the Kennedy Administration is already beginning to show concrete results in its effort to rid the country of the hobgoblin of farm surplus that has plagued the taxpayer and haunted the farmer, off and on, for thirty years." In short, he claims that the basic problem is the crop surplus. This view, despite its widespread acceptance, is demonstrably wrong...