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Farm Policy: Despite a year of bumper crops and rising prices, farmers west of the Mississippi do not generally credit Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson with their prosperity-in fact, quite the contrary. The farm vote, traditionally Republican, remains a real Democratic hope (TIME, Oct. 20). The best Republican hope is that Midwestern farmers will vote according to the jingle in their pockets on election...
...great day approaches, all the candidates' heavy artillery is going into action. For Watkins this means Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture and Member of the Council of Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In Morman Utah the second title is the more important, and an active campaign by Benson might swing an extraordinarily close vote for Watkins. Lee, however, had vigorous Church approval during his terms as Governor, and no religious issue has been raised during the campaign...
...President, for reasons unexplained, had billed this part of his tour "nonpolitical." He neither replied to Massachusetts Democrat Jack Kennedy's needling of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson (from the same platform just an hour before), nor appealed for votes for Republican Congressmen, nor even said a ringing word on behalf of Iowa's G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate William G. Murray, Iowa State University agriculture-economics professor, who stands an outside chance against lackluster Democratic Governor Herschel Loveless. Instead, Ike threw in a statement from hastily jotted notes on foreign policy: "You cannot bargain or negotiate in a world...
Senator John Kennedy, Massachusetts urbanite who voted against rigid price props in 1956, preceded Eisenhower at Cedar Rapids' corn-picking contest with a stemwinding attack upon the author of flexible props, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: "His objective may be to get the government out of the farming business, but the farmers' objective apparently is to get Mr. Benson out of the governing business...
...stave off losses in Genesee, Chamberlain cannot afford to neglect Ingham and Livingston, and already he has heard complaints that he has not been seeing enough of his farm friends. To handle that problem, he scheduled a tour through the district's farming areas this week with Ezra Benson, whom Chamberlain deems a decided political asset...