Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Benson went to Europe," thundered Republican Congressman Usher Burdick last week, "we made a mistake by buying him a return ticket." Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had curdled North Dakota's Burdick by announcing that federal price supports on milk and butterfat would be cut to the legal minimum, 75% of parity, on April 1. Current support levels: 83% for milk, 80% for butterfat. The cuts were needed, explained Benson, to shrink the "incentive for excessive production...
...city and area (40,000), state (112,000) and national (728,000). Subscriptions are almost all hustled up by 30,000 boys in 16,000 communities, nearly 60% of which have a population of 2,500 or less. Some former GnYboys: Poet Carl Sandburg, General Alfred M. Gruenther, South Dakota's Senator Francis Case...
...unpopularity was the election of William Proxmire as Senator from Wisconsin and his subsequent dramatic demand for Benson's resignation. Discontent had been obvious earlier in the summer, when for the first time, Benson was criticized for extensive traveling. The height of direct criticism was reached when South Dakota farmers threw eggs at the Secretary of Agriculture...
...South Dakota cornfield, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson rose on the speaker's platform, drew a barrage of half a dozen eggs from local farmers (their peeve: Benson had not answered their letters). After seeing the whites of the farmers' eggs, Benson said gravely: "This doesn't represent the feeling of the people of South Dakota...
...tagged with the title of police-court judge." He entered the Army as a lieutenant in 1942, held down various Stateside desk jobs for four years, emerged as a lieutenant colonel ("That shows the Army wasn't very fussy about the way it promoted people"). Returning to North Dakota, he built a prosperous general practice, worked hard for every civic drive and organization in sight (Elks, Knights of Columbus, American Legion, Forty and Eight, Exchange Club), and won statewide respect as executive director of the North Dakota Bar Association...