Word: bensonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BLONDE IN BLACK, by Ben Benson (224 pp.; Morrow; $2.95), suggests what too many mystery writers have forgotten: murders sometimes merit sympathy; the police deserve credit for some sense. When Detective Wade Paris investigates a killing at the home of Singer Junie Jacques, he does his job so thoroughly that he winds up with a well-documented story of how a recording star is made. Everything falls into place. The greasy-haired idol of the sloppy-soxers gets into the book for good reason; the sex is there for more than the leers. Even the lunatic brother in the barred...
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...
...last week promised to freeze farm props for another year at the surplus-building levels that cost the U.S. $3.25 billion last fiscal year. Already passed by both branches of Congress (TIME, March 31), it was a deliberate slap in the face for Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who wants permission to cut farm subsidies and make a start toward whittling down the scandalous farm-surplus problem. The argument essentially was between principle and politics. It took the Republican caucus exactly 80 minutes to stand foursquare with politics, to vote 17 to 14 for an unseemly decision. The decision...
...might take advantage of the recession by casting the farm freeze as one of the antirecession pump-primers currently in favor with both the Administration and Congress. Utah's Arthur Watkins argued against a caucus resolution favoring the farm-freeze bill, pointing out that his fellow Mormon, Ezra Benson, would surely resign if Ike were to sign it. At that point, over the smeared luncheon dishes, the other Republican Senators grinned widely and nodded hopefully...
Shoulder to shoulder in Denver's Shirley Savoy Hotel last week sat 1,200 farmers, farm wives, farm economists and farm politicians, gathered in biennial convention to 1) urge federal farm subsidies ever onward and upward, 2) call for the scalp of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson-and 3) elect onetime Typewriter Salesman James G. Patton, 55, to his 13th consecutive term as president of the liberal National Farmers Union. Cried Jim Patton, sounding the N.F.U.'s anti-Administration theme: "Our patience has been imposed upon by those in power chiseling away at nearly every program farmers...