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Hailing this catchall as a bill "that will give immediate relief to farmers," Ellender and Democrat Harold Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, announced that they "fully expected" it would pass both House and Senate, perhaps within the week. At week's end President Eisenhower called Ezra Benson in for a discussion of the bill. Emerging, Benson strongly implied a veto unless Congress changed the measure considerably. Then Ike set up a farm bill conference with congressional leaders. The White House hope, a dim one: House and Senate may still make some sense out of what the conference...
...yard freestyle relay, the Crimson team of Koni Ulbrich, Fred Cooley, Dick Seaton, and Hunter swam its fastest time of the season--a 3:28.0, to finish a close second to Yale. In the final leg, Hunter did a 49.5, with some watches clocking him at 49.3. At any rate, his official time was only .5 seconds off Chouteau Dyer's varsity record, indicating that by his senior year, Hunter may be headed for greater heights...
...week, ancient Egypt's farm plan was drawn into the argument by the Joseph of 1956. On the griddle before the House Committee on Agriculture, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson stood stubbornly by his flexible price supports and his soil bank. Chiding Benson, North Carolina Democrat Harold Cooley said that the soil bank was, in fact, a Democratic idea used in the 1930s. Replied Mormon Apostle Benson: "Its sources probably go back to Joseph in Egypt...
...face it," says Goodie. "I never forgot about being governor." In 1924, as a promising young lawyer and the proprietor of a Stutz Bearcat, Goodie met Arvilla Cooley, a dazzling blonde, at a dinner dance in Santa Monica. A year later they were married, and in due course Goodie became the doting father of two more dazzling blondes, Marilyn and Carolyn. Goodie, a mellow and indulgent parent, was surprised when he occasionally struck flint in his daughters' dispositions. When Carolyn was a student at U.S.C., he was curious to know why she had not joined a sorority. "Unlike...
...Difference. Overnight activity was furious. Agriculture Committee Chairman Harold Cooley sent word to the New York City delegation that if the farm bill failed there was no chance of a $1.25 minimum wage law. Democratic Whip Carl Albert made the rounds with the same message. Sam Rayburn began collecting political lOU's. Telegrams from labor leaders poured in, urging Representatives to support peanuts. The C.I.O.-P.A.C. rushed in its crack legislative liaison man, Bob Oliver, to work the House corridors...