Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were, of course, other reasons for choosing Benson Secretary of Agriculture. He knew about agriculture on all levels; he was an exceptional nominee in that he was acceptable to both the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Farmer's Union, the right and left wing of the farm bloc. He was recommended for the job by some very important Republicans: the late Senator Taft, Thomas Dewey and Milton Eisenhower. His appointment was also very advantageous to the Republican Party in the West. The Mormons are heavily concentrated in Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and Southern California and in most other...
Benson did catch it during and after the 1954 elections. Farm state republicans began to murmur for his resignation and the murmur increased its intensity with the sagging farm economy, the declining farm population, and the 1956 elections. Despite this criticism, Benson was not the man to effect a Nixon-like change in values, and continued in his position of refusing to heavily subsidize the farmer...
Nationalization's Price. Bolivia's far-reaching revolution of 1952 gave land to virtually enslaved Indians and nationalized the mines of the rich tin barons who dominated the country. But land reform drastically cut farm output, and nationalization of the tin companies boomeranged as production slipped from 33,664 tons in 1951 to 27,435 in 1956. With fewer goods than before to pay for these social advances, Bolivia in a single year more than tripled the amount of paper money in circulation...
SURPLUS-DISPOSAL program, whereby U.S. sells excess farm goods for foreign currencies, will be extended one year beyond current cutoff date of next June 30. Administration expects congressional approval to ship goods worth at least $1 billion. Money will be used in foreign aid or to pay for running U.S. agencies abroad...
American Romantics. Mother Kimbrough met him at a Michigan health farm-he was devoted to shredded wheat -and she promptly decided that he was a gentleman "despite those clothes." He was not very tall, but his eyes were blue. Unhappily, he was married. Still, Mary and Sinclair developed an intellectual sort of friendship, and in his circle she began to meet Fascinating People. There was Anarchist Emma Goldman, who was apt to throw vases (filled) at her lover. There was Sinclair Lewis, who sort of absentmindedly squeezed Mary's knee under a Greenwich Village tablecloth. There was a young...