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...depression and the peaks of prosperity. Their keynoter was Farm Bureau President Charles Baker Shuman, a corn, cattle and soybean farmer from Sullivan, Ill. Shuman complained that farmers have been caught in "a serious cost-price squeeze," but went on to praise U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson as "a very conscientious man who is doing as good as any man in his job can do under the circumstances...
From its resolutions committee, the convention got a proposal to reaffirm last year's stand in favor of Ezra Benson's flexible-support program. There was a lively but short-lived flurry of opposition from some Southern delegations, who wanted cotton, tobacco, wheat, rice and peanuts supported at a rigid 90% of parity. The vote was 124-39 for flexibility. Drawled E. H. Agnew, South Carolina cotton farmer who had helped lead the defeated Southerners: "It's like being a bastard at a family reunion and a skunk at a wedding reception...
...Camp David to confer with his Cabinet and other officials. There were many pressing items on the agenda: reconciling the needs of Defense Secretary Wilson's military establishment with the economies of Treasury Secretary Humphrey's all-but-balanced budget, the simmering farm problem of Agriculture Secretary Benson, the changing international situation, the State of the Union message. At one of the Camp David meetings, the discussions went on for so long that Presidential Physician Howard Snyder finally stalked into the conference room and ordered a luncheon break so that his patient could get some rest. While...
FARM-SUBSIDY CEILING is getting strong support in President Eisenhower's Cabinet. Treasury Secretary Humphrey is privately urging Agriculture Secretary Benson to adopt the idea (once part of the controversial Brannan Plan), possibly put a $25,000 limit on the price support any one farmer can collect...
Last week, accusing Democrats of promising farmers the moon, Ezra Benson said: "Agriculture is not going to pot, and this Administration is going to do everything that is sound and right to help American farmers...