Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understanding was reached on a wide range of back-seat matters: cut spending before cutting taxes, consult with Congressmen before making appointments, let the Senate deal with its own rules on filibustering. Senator Young had a particular gripe; he had heard that Ike's Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson would not support a 90% farm parity program. In no time at all, Eisenhower's Attorney General Herbert Brownell had Benson on the long-distance phone and talking with Young. The Senators all came away from their luncheon in good humor...
...United States: Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, 47, of Bountiful, Utah, assistant chairman of the Republican National Committee, a Republican party worker since she was enrolled as a baby sitter at the age of 10. Ike's second Mormon appointee (the first: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson), she has always managed the family budget for her husband (a wholesale furniture dealer) and three children, proudly boasts that "my checkbook always balances." As Treasurer her main job will be to do the same for the Treasury's accounts and to sign her name to all U.S. currency, thus...
Family & Early Years: His great-grandfather, Ezra Taft Benson, was a Mormon apostle. His father, George Taft Benson, was a farmer at Whitney (southern) Idaho, where Ezra was born. As the middle name indicates, he is a remote relative of Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. Said Benson: "We have a common ancestral progenitor about six generations back. My great-great-grandmother was a Taft." Benson attended Oneida Stake Academy (Mormon) at Preston, Idaho and the Utah State Agricultural College, got his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1926, a master of science degree in agricultural...
Politics: Never active in politics, Benson quietly favored Bob Taft for the G.O.P. presidential nomination this year. He got excellent recommendations from farm organization leaders. He favors a farm price support program, but in a speech to a farm group he warned against "leaning on Government aid instead of your own initiative...
...direct, purposeful manner, he lives in moderate circumstances on a "cost-of-living" allowance for his work as a Mormon apostle. He is married, has two sons (the elder, Reed A., is a Mormon chaplain with the Air Force) and four daughters. After his appointment was announced, Ezra Benson said: "While I had never met General Eisenhower until today, I have great confidence in his ability and his power of leadership. Therefore, obedient to the call and consistent with the principles which have guided my life, I shall do my best, God being my helper...