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When Ezra Taft Benson was asked to become Secretary of Agriculture last fall, he told Dwight Eisenhower: "General, no salary in the world could persuade me to take the job." Benson began to give Ike his reasons. First, he had not supported the Eisenhower nomination, had been for his distant cousin. Bob Taft, instead. Well, said Eisenhower, so were a lot of other patriotic Americans. Secondly, said Benson, he had often voiced doubts as to whether a military man should be in the White House. Answered Eisenhower: All the more reason to get good civilians in the Cabinet-like Benson...
...eleven weeks since Apostle Benson took office, he has found that his job, if not always spiritual, is one that requires all the fortitude and dedication of a Brigham Young. Benson is a big (6 ft., 220 Ibs.), open-faced 53-year-old who looks younger, has the ruddy complexion of one who has spent years in the fields (which he has) and the hearty smile and firm handshake of a Boy Scout leader (which he is). He adheres to the old-fashioned philosophy that God helps those who help themselves. Benson quotes the Bible to show how he applies...
When Jacqueline Benson was born at St. Anne's Hospital in Chicago, the doctor did not dare take time to weigh her. Three months premature, she could be carried in a man's cupped hand; she was rushed into an incubator. Even so, she was so tiny-an estimated 12 oz.-that there were no precedents whatever for expecting her to live. But live Jackie Benson did, thanks largely to the devoted day & night care of Nurse Katherine Gallagher...
...Expanding Market. "It has become too easy," said Benson, "to merely spend taxpayers' money to bolster markets." He called upon the dairymen to meet the challenge facing their industry, to convert their "problems" into "opportunities," to improve techniques, to cut costs and thereby lower prices, to seek new outlets. "No industry thrives on a shrinking volume of business. We need an expanding, growing market ... If the Government still owns any appreciable amount of butter when 1954 arrives, I hope all of us will frankly admit our failures...
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