Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fancy Ed Murrow being such a babe in the wood ! He made Ezra Benson look the hero- something Mr. Benson hasn't been able to do for himself recently...
...confident that Secretary Benson understands the basic farm problem and its solution, but feel that his comments on the Murrow broadcast were very misleading. Low-income farmers are not being driven off the land by foreclosures when they can sell out at alltime peak prices; they are leaving, as shown in the Murrow telecast, of their own free will, to take their profits on land prices and find more profitable employment. It is through this migration of surplus low-income farmers to more profitable and useful employment . . . that the farm problem of surplus production and low prices will be solved...
...noon Benson stepped from his official Cadillac outside the Senate Office Building, tugged grimly on his broad-brimmed hat, and hurried to keep a luncheon date with three Republican Farm Belt Senators: Minnesota's Edward Thye, South Dakota's Karl Mundt and North Dakota's Milton Young. A few days earlier, in a preliminary Agriculture Committee vote, all three had sided with an eight-to-seven majority for restoring farm supports pegged rigidly at 90% of parity. This invitation to new surpluses was patently ridiculous, because the committee had also voted for the Administration's soil...
...Midwest the snigger of the week was about the new "Benson tractor"-built without a seat, to accommodate farmers who have lost their pants. In Washington Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had little time for worrying about such Farm Belt jeers: he had on his hands an urgent, deadly serious piece of business with members of the Senate Agriculture Committee...
...minutes, over a veal-and-rice casserole in Thye's office, Ezra Benson tried for a conversion. He failed...