Over-Fulfilled Expectations: A Life and an Era in Rural America

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Purdue University Press, 2002 - 316 Seiten
During the 1920s, the United States, suddenly aware of its potential following success in World War I, offered bright promise to its youth and especially to its rural youth. Harold Breimyer, the author of this memoir, was one of those rural youth- an Ohio farm boy. In this evocative memoir, told in the third person, Breimyer recounts how he and his fellows were encouraged to form high expectations for themselves, and how they fulfilled them.

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Prelude
3
A Vignette
7
Hometown in the 1920s
13
Family History
25
Boyhood on the Farm
38
College and Depression Years
73
Getting Established in New Deal Washington
97
Reflections on the 1930s after Fifty Years
108
Brainstorming Marketing Services to Agriculture
195
The University of Missouri
210
Extension Education in Public Affairs
218
Policy Making in the 1970s
226
Oil Energy and the Supply and Price of Land
233
Who Will Control U S Agriculture?
241
The 1920s Deja Vu
248
Nominal Retirement
266

Personal Tranquility 19361941
119
Farm Policy for Social Reform 19361941
124
Commodity Interests and Supply Management
145
Wartime Interlude
151
An Advancing Professional Career
167
A Goulash of Experiences
183
A Resumé
269
A Futuristic Epilogue
278
Biographical Data
289
Bibliography
291
Index
297
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Seite 15 - Merchant of Venice: The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: And earthly power doth then show likest
Seite 28 - Over the river and through the wood To Grandmother's house we go. The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh Through the white and drifting snow.
Seite 2 - act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law
Seite 109 - met their match. . . . I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.
Seite 24 - from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, “Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Seite 28 - oh a great big fellow, Fruits all ripe and rich and mellow. Everything that's good to eat, More than I can now repeat. That's Thanksgiving.
Seite 28 - Pies of pumpkin, apple, mince, Jams and jellies, peaches, quince, Purple grapes and apples red, Cakes and nuts and gingerbread, That's Thanksgiving.

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