Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impressions form an important part of the political picture. This is particularly true when an incumbent governor such as Leo Hoegh is seeking reelection. National, state and local issues intertwine and conflict and complicate one another (last week staunch Eisenhower Republican Hoegh. convinced that Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson is a local political liability, kept far away when Benson visited Iowa). At times, issues that logically should help the candidate are fatal. In some cases a whole collection of political anthills pile together to form a mountain of opposition...
...legislature, where she darned near kissed a quorum. Others are against him on the basic issue that he has raised taxes. Some farmers oppose him because they do not like the Eisenhower Administration's farm program; some Republicans are displeased because of his feelings toward Secretary Benson. And some of the plain, quiet, steady people of Iowa, who like their public officials plain, quiet and steady, are against him simply because he has moved so fast and has done so much. Said one Indianola house wife last week: "That 'Hoag' should stay around Iowa instead of gallivanting...
Because he has opposed Secretary Benson, Hoegh has lost the active support of the pro-Benson Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, but has not won the backing of anti-Benson farm organizations. He does not object to Benson's policy (he has urged "flexible supports or some other means to get the farmer full parity in the marketplace") as much as he does to Benson's attitude, which he considers anything but flexible...
McKay's record is not all bad. His projected Mission 66 for the National Parks is constructive, and the Parks have received more funds under this Administration than previously. He has sold some dispensable, scattered public lands, and he and Secretary of Agriculture Benson sometimes stepped in to prevent wanton timbering on the public domain. McKay also protected the world's last 28 whooping cranes by blocking an Air Force plan to practice night photoflash bombing near the cranes' refuge...
...himself and his party to 90%-of-parity price supports. He would not attack Ike's motives and was charitably "willing to believe that [Ike] did not fully understand what he was saying . . . in 1952." But the President had to assume responsibility for the policies of Agriculture Secretary Benson. "Secretary Benson was his hired man, and if a farm is mismanaged, the farmer is responsible, not the hired...