Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fracas in the Senate quickly ricocheted to the Agriculture Department, 14 blocks away. There, after five hours of checking the facts, Benson's staff sheepishly invited the press in. The Secretary was away in the country, but an aide read a statement from him. He had not read the article, nor had he signed or even seen the letter. The letter had been written in his office as a routine thank-you note for an advance page proof of the article, and signed with Benson's name by an assistant who is authorized to handle...
EDWARD R. MURROW: Good evening. This is See It Now . . . Tonight, "The Farm ProblemA Crisis of Abundance." This is the Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson [camera swings to a bespectacled Mr. Benson'], who is ... going to sit here and watch this program with us and take an occasional note...
...swings away from Corning. It swings expertly for the next 45 minutes through farms and storage bins around the nation, through the giant stockpiles of grain stored in Liberty ships, finally catches youngsters in Washington singing America the Beautiful. Then it comes back to the grim visage of Secretary Benson, who has indeed been taking an occasional note...
...BENSON: . . . Most interesting ... No one questions that agriculture is in a serious squeeze between rising prices for things farmers buy and declining prices for products they sell . . . [But] I want to dispel once and for all any impression . . . that thousands of farmers in Iowa and elsewhere are being driven off their farms . . . The facts are that farm foreclosures are at or near their record low . . . Any attempt, I feel, to persuade the American farmer that the small farmer is dying in Iowa or anywhere else is a perversion of the truth. And I think it's demagoguery...
...that Dale E. Peterson left last month to take his family to California where he thought he might "do better." Dale's younger brother William, 25, his wife and their three boys have rented the. place on which Dale had his "quitting farming" sale, televised on the Murrow-Benson program last night . . . "We had a letter from [Dale] Thursday," said Mrs. Bill Peterson. "Dale has a job in a warehouse in Glendale ... He just sold out because he thought he could do better in California. And they like it fine...