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Piling relentlessly up throughout 1957, such problems threaten a historic change in the political climate in which organized labor lives and breathes. Just four years ago, the weight of political pressure was for softening the Taft-Hartley law in labor's favor. In fact, the notion of a tougher law seemed unthinkable. But in 1957 the U.S. saw how Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa used the nation's mightiest union to grasp for personal wealth and power. And in 1957 the role of unionism in a peacetime economy was called into question as rarely before. As of this...
After farm prices sank in the '20s and '30s, the New Deal bolted together the prototype support machinery. Far from dismantling it and building a sounder model as the Depression gave way to postwar national prosperity. Congress kept attaching gimmicks and gadgets. Meanwhile, what Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson calls a "technological explosion" has taken place on U.S. farms. The combined impact of more machinery, more fertilizer, deadlier insecticides and higher-yielding hybrid seed has upped overall U.S. farm productivity by onethird since 1940, lowered the number of man-hours needed to produce 100 bu. of wheat from...
...prickly the porcupine is, nobody knows better than Ezra Taft Benson. He went to Washington in 1953 convinced that a dedicated agriculture secretary, willing to rise above politics and make himself personally unpopular, could end huge surpluses, high price supports, acreage controls and big Agriculture Department budgets. But it was Benson's bad luck to take his job just as the farm economy was about to feel the technological explosion's full impact. Under the impact, farm prices sagged. With net farm income sliding from $13.3 billion in 1953 to $11.6 billion in 1956, U.S. farmers were...
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...
...Thrift is [once again] more than a word," the Taft-owned Cincinnati Times-Star cried happily in mid-1955 when John Baker Hollister, 64, onetime law partner of the late Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, was named to coordinate U.S. foreign aid. As a Congressman from 1931 to 1936, Republican Hollister had fought the New Deal, voted against Cordell Hull's Reciprocal Trade Act. He was a longstanding disciple of ex-President Herbert Hoover, and it was Hoover who urged him on the Eisenhower Administration as the successor to free-swinging Harold Stassen as director of the International...