... by a cooperative effort, which included the National Safety Council, the United States Department of Agriculture, land grant colleges, and the nation’s rural youth organizations. However, efforts to impose more stringent regulations faced resistance from farmers after the creation of the Occupational Safety...

...Daniel T. Gresham Abstract This article explores the ideology of the leaders of the Farmers’ Independence Council of America (FIC) in order to understand why they created a conservative front group. FIC leaders Stanley Morse, Dan Casement, and Kurt Grunwald admired big business, favored limited...

... of the United States, 1790–1950 (New York: Octagon Books, 1966 ), 400 Albert R. Russell , U.S. Cotton and the National Cotton Council (Memphis: National Cot¬ ton Council, 1987 ), 7 4 MemphisCommercial Appeal, 22 November1938, 10 Progress Bulletin , 15 April1945, 3 Oscar G...

.... Wayne-anderson@uiowa.edu Copyright © 2022 the Agricultural History Society 2022 white crosses Prairiefire Rural Action National Catholic Rural Life Conference National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA ecumenism O n october 19, 1984, local farmers and their supporters...

.... Rogers Brambell), and the five basic concerns became known as the The Five Freedoms. In 1979, the British government formed an independent committee, the Farm Animal Welfare Council, to research practices and review standards to ensure humane treatment of farm livestock; see Press Notice, Farm Animal...

... councils ( djemâa ) coalesced into what would become a mass resistance movement. The fraction—a precolonial unit of rural social life—thus formed the organizational core through which peasants mobilized for a postcolonial future. The first three parts of the book chart the “terminal decline” of French...

... nutritious food habits. For the next nine years, Newman and his colleagues worked diligently to create and publicize a healthier flour and bread. He worked in alliance with two leading nutritionists: Dr. Lionel B. Pett, chairman of the Canadian Council of Nutrition, and Dr. Frederick Tisdall, chairman...

...R. Douglas Hurt Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 [Footnotes] 1 C. R. Fenster , " Potential and Problems of Ecofarming in Drier Environments ," Proceedings of the Great Plains Agricultural Council , 1982 , Lincoln, Neb., 56 Wes Jackson , New...

... Foundation, 1973 ), 135 3 Winona LaDuke , All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (Boston: South End Press, 1999 ), 78 -90. 5 Teresa Erickson of the Northern Plains Resource Council, interview by author, Billings, Montana, 5 August 1997. 6 Northern Plains...

... the National Council, a bicameral legislature, and provided for the principal chief, a separate executive official. They estab? lished nine districts corresponding more or less to counties in adjoining states.1 Largely tailoring their political institutions along Anglo-American lines, the Cherokees stitched...

... on the misfortunes, dangers and injuries which have been done to them. Norwich Book of Customs entry, 13541 IN 1354 THE TOWN COUNCIL OF Norwich took up the issue of a major urban hazard swine roaming the streets. This was a critical problem. Swine were running loose, damaging property, killing children, and rooting...

... of these doubters was Percy Smallfield, who much later became Director-General of Agriculture. At least one employee of the Ruakura Research Station in the Waikato apparently formed the same opinion. In March 1937 the engineer of the Matamata County Council, the officer responsible for overseeing the control...

..., 1958, 1 Léger to Smith, June 16, 1958, DEA File 11045-H-40, Vol. 7589, RG 25, LAC "President’s Visit to Canada—US Subsidiaries Trade with China," July 1958 Cabinet Conclusions, July 2, 1958, Records of the Privy Council Office (hereafter PCO), RG 2, LAC. 12 "Memorandum of Conversation...

...' associations and the province-wide Agricultural Council (Landesskultur- rat\ Zemedelskd radd) into separate German and Czech sections.8 By cultivating the rural electorate as part of a broad base of support, the Young Czech Party won the majority of the Czech vote in elections to the provincial diet in 1889...

... the Foundation of the Colony (1835–1860) , 1 st series, part 1, 2 nd ed. ( Melbourne : Govt. Printer , 1860 ), 49 – 50 ; W. Lewis Jones and Peggy Jones , The Flour Mills of Victoria, 1840–1990: An Historical Record ( Melbourne : Flour Millers' Council of Victoria , 1990 ), chpts. 2, 5, 6, 9...

... demonstrations each year. Results from fifty thousand demonstrations were summarized and published indicating the variations that existed across districts, states, soil types, and year. M. S. Randhawa , A History of Agriculture in India ( New Delhi : Indian Council of Agricultural Research , 1980–1986...

...), 175. The Prescott and Nevada County NAACP branches were established in 1945. Upchurch was the Prescott NAACP Youth Council state chairperson. See “Prescott,”Arkansas State Press , Nov. 8, 1946, 3; “Nevada School Board Fires Supervisors,” Hope Star , Dec. 31, 1949, 1; “School Head Fired in Nevada...

.... Basically, today s varieties all have blood from Mexican wheat in them, in one way or another. 1 R. S. Paroda, former director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research In late summer 1965 Raúl Valdés, a diplomat with the Mexican Embassy in New Delhi, stood in a farmer s field, far removed...

..., 2007). 8 Mitchell, "Early Days Southern Tenant Farmers Union," 1936, Reel 58, STFUP. Mitchell’s later account is, "Founding and Early History," 350-51. 9 John Allen to Mitchell, Oct. 1935, Reel 1 and Aug. 6, 1936, Reel 2, STFUP. Allen’s presence was also noted at an executive council...

... ofthesystemsand organizationssuggestedthatcouldbe implementedas partofan overallremakingof the NorthAmericanfood systeminclude:expanding farmers'markets,community-supporteadgriculture,and food policy councils. Afterreadingthisbookthereadercanexpecttobe moreknowledgeable...