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...renewed his pitch for postal rate increases. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom promised to develop some sort of plan to improve U.S. scientific training (significantly, Folsom said nothing whatever about the Administration's last school construction program, which was killed in the House). Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson talked about saving $500 million by eliminating the acreage reserve section of the soil-bank program (a good part of that saving might be offset by increased subsidies). Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, while avoiding talk of tax increases, plugged for renewal of the 52% corporation tax rate...
...when other Gannett papers (nearly all in solid Republican territory) supported Tom Dewey for President, Gannett's Independent Democratic Hartford (Conn.) Times (circ. 120,182) backed Truman; in 1952, when Gannett backed Taft, the Times and most other papers in the group boomed Eisenhower. His Independent Republican Binghamton (N.Y.) Press (circ. 64,562), one of the best small-city newspapers in the U.S., has lately made a habit of supporting Democrats for mayor. During a state election campaign in which several of his papers had gone counter to Gannett's publicly expressed views, F.E.G., as he was called...
...Friday morning the conference was with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; that afternoon the Agriculture Department proposals were discussed; next morning it was the Mutual Security program. The style of the sessions was informal, generally on a first-name basis, although some officials, e.g., Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, alternated between "Mr. Vice President" and "Dick...
Returning from a 24-day world-circling observation junket (termed by his foes a "farewell present" from the Administration), Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson flew into Washington and a round of reporters' goading about his ever-rumored resignation. "That question has been raised ever since the first week I took the job," said Ezra. "I presume if the prognosticators work long enough, they are sure to hit it right some time. I have no plans to leave...
...CARGO PACTS, by which common-carrier truck lines agree to boycott cargo going to or from any company that is branded "unfair" by Teamsters Union, are invalid. NLRB reversed its 1949 decision, said that such contracts are secondary boycotts in violation of Taft-Hartley...