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...hour minimum-wage bill by bottling up the House bill (thus forestalling a House-Senate conference to work out a joint version) unless they agreed to bury the remainder of the Kennedy short-session program-housing, federal aid to education and a bill to ease Taft-Hartley restrictions on picketing at construction sites...
...Kennedy said he had come to Des Moines to learn from the farmers, but he took advantage of the occasion to trundle out his first farm speech of the campaign. It was aimed not so much at farmers' problems as at Richard Nixon and unpopular Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, Nixon's heaviest political burden in the Farm Belt. Said Kennedy: "Their candidate, they say, has experience in the executive branch. He has participated in its decisions. He has shared in its responsibilities. He has been educated in its programs. When it comes to agriculture, I can only...
Agriculture: Secretary Ezra Taft Benson (whom Richard Nixon regards as a heavy political burden) has been "forthright and courageous in trying to get enacted into legislation plans and programs that I think are correct." For Ike to regret having kept Benson on the job "would be almost a betrayal of my own views...
Nature's good tidings meant bad news for a lot of people: for farmers whose crops will be in oversupply, for the taxpayers who have to pay for costly federal programs to cope with farm surpluses, for harried Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson and for his successor in the next Administration...
...proud moment in the life of moonfaced Earl C. Corey when he was summoned to Washington in May 1959 to receive the Department of Agriculture's Superior Service Award. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson himself pinned a silver medal on Corey's lapel, cited his "significant contributions to agriculture through his fine relationships with producing, warehousing and merchandising groups...