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...Midwest, the President resounded his theme. In Springfield, Ill., he spoke of agriculture: "In the last 21 months we have not. by any means, solved the farm problem. But we have achieved the best two-year advance in farm income of any two years since the Depression. At the same time we reduced our wheat and feed grain surpluses by 700 million bushels...
...that "there was a wild, dazed look in his eyes." Late that morning, soldiers at a roadblock arrested Walker as he was attempting to leave town in a car. He was arraigned on charges of insurrection and seditious conspiracy and sent to the U.S. prison and medical center in Springfield, Mo., for observation. At week's end he was released on $50,000 bond...
...fugitive from a sentence imposed on him by the courts of a country whose life is based on democratic institutions and constitutional guarantees." Waiting to escort the spy the rest of the way home were two U.S. marshals, and the Justice Department made ready a bed in the Springfield, Mo., Medical Center for Federal Prisoners...
...West Springfield, Mass., Storrowton Music Fair: Howard Keel hauls out Kismet for another go-round...
...plague. "The American people," cried Morse, in a sulphurous 1960 speech from the Senate floor, "need to be warned before it is too late about the threat which is arising as a result of the monopolistic practices of the Newhouse interests." That same year, when Newhouse bought into two Springfield, Mass, dailies, Sidney R. Cook, treasurer and board member, promptly called the interloper "a menace" and "a graveyard superintendent" who "goes around picking up the bones?preying on widows and split families." Added Cook: "I can tell you this. Newhouse will never get into Springfield." Newhouse has not since...