Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last fortnight a group of southwesterners, including a delegation of Texans led by Republican National Committeeman Jack Porter, went up to Washington to tell their story and to ask for help. Last week Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson flew to Texas to make a speech at a cotton convention in Lubbock, and turned his trip into a drought-inspection tour...
...Benson rolled out of Lubbock in a blue Cadillac, rode over roads that had been plowed clear of drifted dust. He gazed at the parched earth, ran some of it through his fingers, then went into conferences with farmers and ranchers. At week's end Benson said he would recommend that the Government do everything it can to give the drought-stricken southwesterners what they want: 1) emergency feed supplies at reasonable cost, 2) a Government buying program to take distress cattle off the market, and 3) emergency, long-term credit...
...Real Solution. Secretary Benson is basically against Government price supports and controls, but he approves of them in precisely this kind of situation- to prevent disaster. Said Mormon Apostle Benson: "We will move just as expeditiously as humanly possible. You people don't want handouts, you want help to help yourselves. I know that your hearts and sentiments are in this, and we want you to stay on your land. And may the Good Lord send us moisture from above...
Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture...
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson told Nebraska cattlemen how to eliminate the nation's farm surplus: "One thing we can do ... is to eat our way out of this problem...