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...BENSON Vermillion...
Chandler's indestructible popularity in Kentucky and his ballad-singing, back-thumping campaign (TIME, Aug. 8) were key factors in the size of his victory. But there was a national issue involved: falling prices on the farm. Chandler hit hard at U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson's farm program, crying: "Why, if you elect this fellow [Denney] this fall next year he'll be helping Benson and those fellows up there." In rural Kentucky, there was a marked shift to the Democratic side from the 1954 congressional election, e.g., in west Kentucky's Hopkins...
Although the Ford family will become minority stockholders in their own company, they will be well rewarded for the loss of privacy. The Ford stock held by each of Henry Ford's surviving heirs (Mrs. Edsel Ford, Henry Ford II, Benson, William and Josephine Ford) will now have a market value of at least $388 million if, as Wall Street expects, the shares go on sale for around $60 apiece...
From Bonanza to Reality. Ezra Benson, no politician, knows as well as the politicians in the Eisenhower Administration that the political clamor about the farm situation is dangerous. The farm belt, which could swing the 1956 Presidential election one way or the other, is uneasy. Democrats have been making and will make a lot of political hay out of this uneasiness in some farm areas, e.g., Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. But Ezra Benson will not be stampeded. After his conference with the President last week he said firmly: "This Administration, according to the President . . . will not attempt...
Along with his medical progress, the President's working program was stepped up. Bedside appointments with government officials were more frequent and longer. Among the week's visitors: U.N. Representative Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson (see above), Interior Secretary Douglas McKay. One afternoon Dr. Arthur Burns, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Gabriel Hauge, the President's personal economic adviser, met with Ike and got his approval of a domestic Point 4 program (see above). One morning the President worked for 45 minutes on a draft of his 1956 State...