Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, after prolonged conferences with Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft. Benson, the President reached a decision. In Augusta, Ga., miles away from the clamor of Washington, he decided to let principle not politics be his guide. As he headed home for Washington. Dwight Eisenhower made up his mind to veto the farm bill. This week...
...likewise a pest-ridden harvest for U.S. farmers. The bill would establish the Administration's soil bank (much too late in this farming year), but also would restore high, rigid price supports to work at cross purposes with the new program. Said Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson: "The bill would seek to cure the farm problem with the very measures which built up the surpluses, which lost farmers their market, and which reduced their income...
...Dual parity, an arrangement that would set up two methods of calculating parity prices on wheat, corn, cotton, rice and peanuts and give farmers the higher of the two. (Said Benson: "This would make a joke of parity. Parity . . . would become a statistical stairway to the promised land...
Hailing this catchall as a bill "that will give immediate relief to farmers," Ellender and Democrat Harold Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, announced that they "fully expected" it would pass both House and Senate, perhaps within the week. At week's end President Eisenhower called Ezra Benson in for a discussion of the bill. Emerging, Benson strongly implied a veto unless Congress changed the measure considerably. Then Ike set up a farm bill conference with congressional leaders. The White House hope, a dim one: House and Senate may still make some sense out of what the conference...
...case, it was another good showing for Estes Kefauver, and he seized upon it to announce that Wisconsin proved "real unrest against the Eisenhower-Benson program." And indeed unrest (general or not) was probably the safest word...