Word: merwin
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Farmers. "The farmers aren't just mad at Benson," cracked Washington's Democrat Warren G. Magnuson. "They're mad at everybody." Iowa Democrat Merwin Coad charged back determined to override the President's veto of the bill freezing farm-price supports at 1957 levels (TIME, April 14). But he had little intersectional support; Republican Willard S. Curtin polled his Pennsylvania Dutch farmers, found them mostly for flexible supports or for no supports at all. Said Sam Rayburn: "Nobody told me anything about removing Benson." Said Maine Democrat Frank Coffin, from the midst of dairy country: "There...
...happens to be a Jew"). Kamp was jailed for contempt of Congress after refusing to reveal the backers of his Constitution al Educational League. Bagdikian also set forth that Facts Forum tells its members how to get on the mailing list of such organizations as Merwin K. Hart's National Economic Council, described by the Buchanan Lobbying Committee of the 81st Congress as a group that attempts "to disparage those who oppose its objectives by appeals to religious prejudice, often an ill-concealed anti-Semitism." In Manhattan, where a Forum unit v/as formed, the first meeting was addressed...
Christians in Communist China have suffered under an attack as clever as any Iron Curtain persecution and far more systematic than most of the others. Speaking for the Protestants, the Rev. Wallace C. Merwin, onetime Presbyterian missionary in China and now working for the National Council of Churches' Division of Foreign Missions, last week appraised the Communist attack and Christianity's chances for survival...
Church attendance, although not forbidden outright, has been cleverly discouraged. "Even when church services are permitted," says Merwin, "the church buildings are used for political meetings or for barracks or granaries...
Conformed or Liquidated? With the handful of foreign missionaries left in China either imprisoned or under house arrest, what hope is there that Chinese Christians will stand up under their ordeal? "Most Christian leaders," Merwin admits, "have either conformed or been liquidated-not necessarily by execution or imprisonment, although some have met that fate. Undoubtedly a number of Christian leaders have become convinced supporters of the Communist cause...