Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occurred to anyone that objections might also be raised to the appointment of Secretary of Agriculture Benson? . . . Benson holds a position in the Mormon Church comparable to that of a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. Why no howls about that...
Agriculture. In the face of a farm-prices decline begun two years ago, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson has been traveling across the land explaining the Administration's ultimate aim when the present price-support law expires in 1954: flexible price supports which allow freer operation of the forces of the market place, while still giving adequate protection to the farmer. Last week the President recalled a sentence in the Republican platform to indicate what that policy would be like; "A prosperous agriculture with free and independent farmers is fundamental to the national interest...
Suddenly the fervent price-support Democrats woke up to the fact that Benson was carrying a modified free-economy philosophy right into their own back pastures. Said Minnesota's Representative Eugene J. McCarthy, "[Benson] is like a man standing on the bank of the river telling a drowning man that all he needs to do is take a deep breath of air." Alabama's Senator John Sparkman said that Benson had "in effect repudiated the price-support program." (One notable exception: New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, Harry Truman's ex-Secretary of Agriculture, who agreed "with...
Actually, Benson had said repeatedly that he will enforce the present price-support program as long as it is the law; he has begun studies to determine what policy should be adopted when the law expires at the end of 1954. He has not announced specific policy on present supports not fixed by law. And despite all political bawls and bellows about cattle prices, spokesmen for the cattlemen themselves stood solidly behind Benson. Their attitude: we've never had cattle price supports, and we don't want them...
...Ezra Benson...