Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Richard Russell and the South's fight on the so-called civil rights bill was, in TIME'S fashion, just one more sermon for compulsory integration-not so effective a sermon, however, as your picture of Manhattan's integrated teen-age gangsters was in support of Senator Russell and segregation...
...from Congress in 1954 a grudging bit of price-support flexibility, but last year it took an Eisenhower veto to keep Capitol Hill from restoring the old system of rigid, mandatory support, at 90% of parity, under six basic farm commodities, including wheat, cotton, corn. Benson himself has had to learn to bend with political winds, to compromise, zigzag and, as he puts it with a wan smile, "rise above principle...
Despite all the porcupine quills stuck in him, Ezra Taft Benson still hopes to get a radically altered price-support program through Congress next year. Enough fresh evidence of the current program's failure has piled up, he trusts, to convince Capitol Hill that it is high time for a change...
Benson wants Congress to get rid of rigid, mandatory price supports altogether, grant the Agriculture Secretary authority to set support under any farm commodity at whatever level he deems suitable, from 100% down. If Benson gets his way, the Government will no longer use supports to try to make farming profitable even for an inefficient farmer on an obsolete small farm. Supports would serve only to prevent drastic price falls from one year to the next. In coping with a commodity in oversupply, e.g., wheat, Benson would lower the support price bit by bit. Gradually, farmers would shift wheat fields...
...ultimate contradiction, the Administration put into effect a support price lor corn grown outside the acreage limitation program, i.e., a guaranteed market of $1.25 a bushel for those who thumbed their noses at crop-restriction programs...