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farm bloc

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  1. A group of both Democratic and Republican members of Congress from the farming states of the Middle West that pressures the federal government to adopt policies favorable to farmers.


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The French maintained that Germany's modern, competitive industry had gained so much by the Common Market that it was now time for France's efficient, highly productive farm bloc to get some gravy too.

From Time Magazine Archive

With one eye on this procedure, non-farmers ask: What more does the farm bloc want?

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Everybody understood such figures, but few U.S. citizens knew much about the thing that the farm bloc was trying to manipulate.

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Impartial House observers rate him thus: An able and industrious legislator who has supplied the House farm bloc with its political motive power.

From Time Magazine Archive

The farm bloc is the first permanent economic minority to organize itself effectively for political action.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert

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