Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the economy. Last week the President ordered Housing and Home Finance Administrator Albert Cole to speed up the spending and lending of about $650 million in funds already appropriated for public housing, urban renewal, public-works loans to local governments, etc. He also instructed Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson to "encourage" the outflow of Rural Electrification Administration loans...
...until next year. ¶ Eleven Republicans joined 39 Democrats as the Senate, by a 50-10-43 vote, adopted a resolution to freeze farm price supports and acreage allotments at not less than the 1957 levels. The vote was a defeat for the Administration and Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who wanted to cut farm giveaways. ¶ But when Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas tried to tack a $5 billion tax cut onto a routine insurance tax bill, thereby departing from his leadership's check-and-raise tax policy, he was clobbered...
...were still scoffing at Sputnik I as a "silly bauble," Nixon publicly proclaimed the Russian satellite a serious, important challenge to U.S. technology. He works hard with Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn to bolster the morale of Republican organizations across the country, privately wishes that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson would resign to help the party in the farm states. Again, it was his awareness of the Administration's political shortcomings that last week moved Nixon out front on the tax issue...
...President was already on record with a plain answer that was a forthright choice of moral right over political expediency. Asked about Benson's prospects at his press conference, Ike said: "He is honest in his great effort to find proper, reasonable, sensible programs. When we find a man of this dedication, this kind of courage, this kind of intellectual and personal honesty, we should say to ourselves, 'We just don't believe that America has come to the point where it wants to dispense with the services of that kind of a person...
...challenge: many a Republican Congressman admits privately what he would not dare say publicly, i.e., that Ezra Benson is indeed on the right tack. If the Republicans really wanted to defend moral right over political expediency, they could take just such a campaign stand this fall. Perhaps, for so open and honest a pitch, they might lose congressional seats this year. But for the majority of U.S. taxpayers, both on farms and in the city, they would make it clear that the Democrats, and not the Republicans, are the party in favor of perpetrating the scandal...