Word: bensonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Says Texas' Poage: "Being from a silver-producing state in the West, Mr. Benson probably knows more about Joseph than I do. Possibly Joseph was a Free Silver Democrat...
...Senate still has to plow its way through 70-odd proposed amendments to the farm bill, and then the bill has to go to conference, where it will be up against a rigid support bill passed by the House last year. At week's end, Secretary Benson was prodding Congress to hurry the bill through so the widely favored soil bank plan will put some money into farmers' pockets this year...
Throughout the battle Ezra Taft Benson had conducted himself with great tactical skill. Behind the skill lay the strategy of principle firmly held and forcefully advocated...
...moment Stevenson's little air fleet touched down on a grass strip at Worthington, just north of the Iowa border, his campaign went well. The weather was mostly bright, the small-town audiences attentive, generous (slipping up to $400 a meeting into collection cans labeled "The Ezra Taft Benson Retirement Fund") and unexpectedly large, e.g., Stevenson drew 2,500 in Montevideo...
...Only the Hired Hand." Speaking as often as eight times a day, Stevenson bore down hardest on the Eisenhower farm program. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, he said, is "only the hired hand," while President Eisenhower is "the owner, the boss." Added Stevenson, sarcastically: "It is curious that all anyone ever says about the owner is that he ought to be re-elected President of the U.S." The real reason Eisenhower is running again, said Stevenson, is that "he can't afford to retire to the farm at Gettysburg while Benson is Secretary of Agriculture...