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Ready to Fight. Nowhere is this new every-man-on-his-own attitude clearer than in Congress, where all House members and 21 Republican Senators are up for re-election and intend to make records they can run on. To Midwestern Congressmen Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson is anathema, and they will fight his election-year proposal to cut farm subsidies (TIME. Jan. 27); even so loyal an Administration supporter as Vermont's venerable George Aiken has publicly turned on Benson and his works. More worried about such a simple political issue as rising unemployment than anything else, many...
...Start now to free the farmer of Government controls on acreage by letting the Secretary of Agriculture gradually increase acreage allotments up to 50% above present levels if-as Benson hopes-lower farm prices stimulate consumption at home and abroad in areas where U.S. products have been priced out of the market...
...President's message hit the Capitol, farm bloc regulars hit the chandeliers, turned sober discussion of issues into noisy attack on Ezra Benson. North Carolina's Harold Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, cried that Eisenhower wanted to give Benson a "blueprint for bankruptcy." Louisiana's Allen Ellender, chairman of the Senate committee, said Benson would become a "czar," promptly summoned him to a committee inquisition. Benson arrived at 10 a.m. with a 24-page statement, was badgered after the third sentence. At one point Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington accused Benson of "insincerity...
...attack steamed up, even Vermont's once friendly Republican George Aiken turned his back on Ezra Benson...
...Aiken had wanted the Administration to make a special exception in the new program for dairy farmers, but Benson said no.) As the committee members closed in, Chairman Ellender, unable to conceal his delight, looked at Aiken and broadly winked. Not until almost 6 o'clock was Benson allowed to complete his statement. By then all but two Senators, after having their say to the press table, had gone home...