Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benson continued the price-support programs and adopted emergency measures to help drought-stricken farmers. But to many farm-belt politicians and livestock men, that is not enough, and Benson's clear intimation that he really prefers a freer market is too much. Suddenly, reporters began badgering Benson with that ominous Washington question: "Are you going to resign?" As early as mid-September both Ike and his Secretary of Agriculture were aware of the power of the question to change the tide. In Denver to confer with the President, Benson said: "I did not go to Washington because...
...prices have brought a great outcry from the farm belt. Farm income has been generally falling since 1947, but that fact does not cool the farmer's ire in 1953. Shrill cries of protest have arisen, and they are directed at one man: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson...
Principle v. Politics. Armed with that kind of support, Benson refused to stampede. Sipping milk as he talked, he told the convention of the National Retail Farm Equipment Association in Chicago last week that he will go ahead with his long-range efforts to develop a better farm program. Said he: "We are not interested in pleasing or replying to rabble-rousers and demagogues...
...away from any changes in price supports. It is much too early to say, as some Republicans and many Democrats were saying last week, that the Administration has already lost the farm vote. What it has lost through overconfidence in Wisconsin and insufficient energy among Republican farm leaders, including Benson, is the initiative in the fight for a more sense-making farm program. Wisconsin's Ninth puts Benson on the defensive, and he will have a hard time getting out of the trenches...
Last week Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson gave a part of the answer. Into the Agriculture Department's conference room crowded almost 100 reporters to hear about the department's new reorganization plans. "The Secretary," announced Benson's press officer, "will start off the presentation, then Assistant Secretary [Earl] Coke will follow with details and present some slides. Please hold your questions until we get through the presentation." Forty-five minutes later, when the lights snapped on, there was little time left for reporters to question Benson about his controversial farm program. As Benson marched from...