Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking to the Young Republican Club in Emerson Hall, Benson declared that "Politics reached a new low this Spring when the Democrats held up and revised the Eisenhower farm plan in order to make political capital out of the unhappy plight of the farmer...
...that the Democrats "laid a trap for Eisenhower." A veto meant he was voting against his own plan, but, on the other hand, he could not support the bill without repudiating all his previous policies. "This type of political dealing has been typicial of the Democrats attitude toward the farm problem," he said...
When the Republican team entered office four years ago, they found the whole farm policy still oriented on a wartime basis, he said. The government was still offerring 90 percent party price supports as an incentive to grow crops, although the need for these crops had completely disappeared. Benson pointed out that no legislation was on the books which could have gotten rid of the surpluses which were piling...
...gross another $75 million this year. But he is far more than an enterprising grocer. He is a director of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and headed the 20-man Puerto Rico Food Advisory Commission, which worked out a master plan to speed native-grown food from farm to table. His latest project: organize the U.S. grocery group that will set up a fully stocked supermarket to go on display at Rome's fairgrounds this summer, thus give an older world a new look at U.S. products and salesmanship...
Reed Benson, son of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, will speak tonight in Emerson F at 8 p.m. on GOP farm policy...