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...specifics, the offensive ranged through the power-partnership programs of Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, through the new tax program (TIME, Aug. 16). the controversial Atomic Energy bill and Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's program for flexible price supports on farm products...
...Democratic reaction to the new offensive was keen and swift. Democrats found their handiest targets in Ezra Benson, whose plain, logical arguments won surprising victories for his program both in the House and in the Senate (see THE CONGRESS). The Democratic high command built up steam for a big meeting at Sioux Falls. S.Dak., late this month, where Adlai Stevenson and other top Democrats will commiserate with the farmers. The Democratic Digest, which sets the party line, slapped Benson's picture on the cover of its September issue, along with the dubious headline: FARMERS GET THE BUSINESS...
...Republicans, showing a new kind of surefootedness, backed down not one step. Out from National Committee headquarters went the word that one of the G.O.P.'s chief campaigners in the fall will be Ezra Benson, who already has been booked for speeches in 16 states west of the Alleghenies in September and October...
...telling his troops, "Damn you, you've got to be with us on this one. The President needs your support. So do I." The session's crowning personal success for Halleck was the farm bill, which he saved from defeat under farm-bloc opposition to Agriculture Secretary Benson's sliding price scale of 75% to 90% of parity. Halleck, who has represented his Indiana farm district for 20 years, thought he could win on a compromise of 82½% to 90%, and told the President so. Said Ike, "Charlie, you're the captain. Go ahead...
...evident when he was asked whether he thought the Senate Agriculture Committee's vote to raise butter price supports from 75 to 85% of parity would cut consumption. The committee, he said, had made a grave error. Butter consumption had increased 7% after Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson cut price supports to 75% of parity. Now, the committee had wiped out most of the reason for that increase...