Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political mist enshrouding U.S. farm policy, doughty Ezra Benson emerged last week with a plan for shrinking overproduction. His plan would keep flexible price supports but would go beyond them by paying farmers to switch from surplus-making crops to soil-building grass and trees. Apart from its agricultural soundness, which came first with stubborn Ezra Benson, the "soil-bank" proposal looked like a political convincer. It was not a new plan; the New Deal put a similar scheme into effect from 1936 to " 1943. But coming from Benson, it was evidence that the Secretary's inflexible opposition to inflexible...
...soil-bank proposal was one of six points that Benson, addressing the Republican National Committee in Chicago, outlined as the basis of his legislative program in 1956. The others...
...Said Benson: "Its impact will be chiefly in areas where topsoil is being wasted in growing crops not needed by today's markets. It will mean better soil and water conservation [and] added income." While the last item was the key for farmers, the emphasis on conservation was a key to the plan's legality. Not forgotten was the adverse Supreme Court ruling in 1936 on the early Agricultural Adjustment Act, held unconstitutional because it paid farmers outright to restrict production...
...also. How can we buy the items needed and economize? We can -by working 18 hours a day, as many do who show the 11% profit, and use 12-and 13-year-old children to work as unpaid labor. Your city labor is working for shorter hours. Mr. Benson tells the farmer to work longer hours for less hourly wage. The farm situation is dangerous because the farmer and his family are damn...
Chandler's indestructible popularity in Kentucky and his ballad-singing, back-thumping campaign (TIME, Aug. 8) were key factors in the size of his victory. But there was a national issue involved: falling prices on the farm. Chandler hit hard at U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson's farm program, crying: "Why, if you elect this fellow [Denney] this fall next year he'll be helping Benson and those fellows up there." In rural Kentucky, there was a marked shift to the Democratic side from the 1954 congressional election, e.g., in west Kentucky's Hopkins...