Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North Carolina's Representative Harold Cooley, a strong advocate of high, rigid farm supports, takes over the House Agriculture Committee and has promised to put Secretary Benson on the grill in January. But Louisiana's Senator Allen Ellender, who will head the Senate Agriculture Committee, is committed to giving flexible supports a chance to work and, in any event, the Congress is not likely to override a presidential farm bill veto...
...Christopher was a tenant farmer for 21 years before scraping together enough money to make a down payment on his own place. Even the elements have conspired against Hillelson. Says Christopher: "We've been plagued by one year of flood, three years of drought and two years of Benson...
Leavitt and Peirce's two present employees, who have been at 1316 Massachusetts Avenue for 20 and 26 years, can recall when President Lowell dropped into the shop three times a week with his cocker spaniel, and when President Conant used to send his secretary down to buy Benson and Hedges cigars. The firm has not seen nor heard from President Pusey. But this is easily explained by the counterman...
Agriculture Secretary Benson also told dairymen last week that his flexible support program was working out just as he had hoped. Dairy-products consumption has increased, said Benson, and the U.S. has not had to add a single pound of butter to its 408 million lb. hoard since Sept. 17. Furthermore, overall surplus buying since April, when the new program providing for supports at only 75% of parity went into effect, has been cut some 13% below 1953 levels...
...Thousands of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints converged on Salt Lake City for the Mormon Church's 12 5th semiannual conference. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, a member of the Mormons' top policymaking body, the Council of the Twelve Apostles, voiced a plea "that regardless of the party you are affiliated with, you remember the standard the God of Heaven has given and use your influence to help safeguard the country and see that honest, good and wise men are elected to public office...