Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight labor racketeering, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week marched into Gettysburg, returned with a promise that Ike would plow into the multi-billion-dollar farm-subsidy scandal. Before Congress reconvenes next January, Benson said, the President will go on television with a direct appeal for public support of Benson's proposals to end the wheat surplus for which taxpayers pay dearly...
There is plenty of reason for a presidential plea to do something about wheat. The present wheat-support program (75% of parity, with a 55 million-acre limit on planting) is building toward a record 1.5 billion bushel surplus next year (cost: $3.5 billion). Benson's solution, which Congress ignored this year in passing its own bill, which President Eisenhower vetoed, would do away with acreage controls and include price supports that slide a little each year toward true market levels...
...able lawyers, but he obliged anyway. Then Bridges laid his own ideas on the line. "I don't want to leave you with any misapprehension of my position," he said. "Everyone knows that I'm friendly with Dick Nixon and that it is my present intention to support...
Mather traveled 2,000 miles a month to get public support for a "freedom bill." When it passed three years ago, the trustees finally had the right to hire teachers...
...C.I.O. made it clear that it expects the steel walkout to last at least another month; it scheduled a rally to back the steelworkers at its annual convention on Sept. 18, considered a drive to collect i^ a day from each of its 13,300,000 members to help support the 500,000 steel strikers. That-on the basis of a five-day week-would amount to $1.33 per striker per week...