Word: bensonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current attempt of Midwestern Republican Congressmen to get Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson fired from his job, the G.O.P. is faced with 1) a scandal, 2) a dilemma, and 3) a challenge...
...dilemma: the fact that Ezra Benson, in campaigning for reforms that are the most tentative steps toward correcting the scandal (e.g., lowering minimum price supports from 75% of parity to 60%), has become such a convenient political target that Midwestern Republicans would like to dump him before election time. Two of the dump-Benson Congressmen, Nebraska's A. L. (for Arthur Lewis) Miller and Phil Weaver, had the gall to go to the President last week to attack a member of his Cabinet. They argued that Benson will lose the Republicans 20 to 25 House seats and five Midwestern...
Hotfooting it from Capitol Hill to the Agriculture Department on an astonishing political mission, Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd and Nebraska's Arthur L. Miller last week tracked down Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. They had an urgent message: G.O.P. farm state Congressmen had just convened in emergency caucus and decided that either Benson must quit his job or 20 to. 25 members of the caucus would be defeated this fall as part of the mounting farm protest against Benson's policies...
Behind the latest party revolt against Ezra Benson lay grim results of a special election in Minnesota to fill the late Congressman August Andresen's First District seat. So rock-ribbed Republican are the First District's twelve rural counties that the district has sent only three Democrats to Congress in Minnesota's 100 years, and none in the last 65. Never in twelve House terms did Andresen win less than 60% of the vote. But in a battle of young unknowns only last week, Democratic-Farmer-Labor Candidate Eugene Foley, 29, almost upset Republican Albert Quie...
...week's protests, both from Minnesota and from Capitol Hill, were overruled by Ezra Taft Benson. After listening to Judd and Miller for 40 minutes, he announced that he was not only staying on, but would "continue to pursue a course which I believe is best for our farmers." Most farm state G.O.P. Congressmen still were angrily certain that this was the worst possible political course, decided once more to ask Dwight Eisenhower to fire Benson. But Minnesota's Walter Judd was impressed by what he had seen and heard, sober second-thought: "I myself think...