Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depression and the peaks of prosperity. Their keynoter was Farm Bureau President Charles Baker Shuman, a corn, cattle and soybean farmer from Sullivan, Ill. Shuman complained that farmers have been caught in "a serious cost-price squeeze," but went on to praise U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson as "a very conscientious man who is doing as good as any man in his job can do under the circumstances...
...Camp David to confer with his Cabinet and other officials. There were many pressing items on the agenda: reconciling the needs of Defense Secretary Wilson's military establishment with the economies of Treasury Secretary Humphrey's all-but-balanced budget, the simmering farm problem of Agriculture Secretary Benson, the changing international situation, the State of the Union message. At one of the Camp David meetings, the discussions went on for so long that Presidential Physician Howard Snyder finally stalked into the conference room and ordered a luncheon break so that his patient could get some rest. While...
FARM-SUBSIDY CEILING is getting strong support in President Eisenhower's Cabinet. Treasury Secretary Humphrey is privately urging Agriculture Secretary Benson to adopt the idea (once part of the controversial Brannan Plan), possibly put a $25,000 limit on the price support any one farmer can collect...
...Going to Pot." The soil-bank plan, Benson warned his fellow Republicans, is "no nostrum." He called it a constructive "move in the direction we must go with a many-sided program." Indications of the pressure on Benson were evident enough last week, when hog prices dropped to the lowest point in 14 years, and U.S. farm economists met in Washington for an annual "outlook" conference that expressed much long-range confidence but brought little news of immediate cheer. For 1956, they foresaw a continued cost-price squeeze, though not so serious a one as the 10% farm decline...
Last week, accusing Democrats of promising farmers the moon, Ezra Benson said: "Agriculture is not going to pot, and this Administration is going to do everything that is sound and right to help American farmers...