Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small-acreage wheat farmer, I do not agree with all the opinions expressed by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson (TIME, April 13) ... Secretary Benson accuses inefficient farmers, as he calls them, inefficient because they do not produce in large enough quantities to be efficient . . . How can he reconcile this with the fact that the falling or low prices for wheat are brought about by overproduction...
City slickers who read that ten-year-old Ezra Taft Benson hand-milked 30 cows twice daily will no doubt have concluded that farming is mere child's play...
Secretary Benson is, obviously, a person of integrity . . . Would it be permissible, however, to wonder about the integrity of the professional separatists in the matter of church and state, whose vociferous hue and cry is strangely quiet when one of the Twelve Apostles who guide the Mormon Church is included in the President's Cabinet...
...sure that the play fully explains it. Mabry, however, skillfully controls Master's staccato efficiency and constrained pleading with the general. For Masters to be clear, we must see him as one who flight his causes with objective, calculating tactile, rather than the more burning idealism of Benson, the state department official who has been subpoenaed before a Congressional investigating committee...
...Benson's rele, Neil Powell, achieves the high level of the other two performances as does Robin Ladd, as the general's WAC accrotary and Robort Layzer as a newspaper man. Benson, like Masters, has committee one error, but even more than Masters, he needs desperately to have the general's benediction on his integrity. Both Men find it hard to believe the general is real, but both find it easy to believe in him. He is an ideal which they must protect from any corruption, in order that the general may be able to remain a salvaged weapon...