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...Republican nomination. To the Senate for confirmation he sent the name of John Minor Wisdom, 51, Louisiana's Republican national committeeman. A lifetime Republican but no politician until 1951, Lawyer Wisdom (specialty: antitrust legislation) recruited Louisiana Republicans and Democrats alike for Ike, saw a delegation packed with Taft supporters picked for the convention. Carrying his battle to Chicago, Wisdom argued credentials with top courtroom skill, produced 21 witnesses and a stack of exhibits, won 13 of Louisiana's 15 seats at the critical moment when Eisenhower needed strength to swing the nomination. Under Wisdom, Louisiana last year went...
This continuing cost-price squeeze on agriculture chilled but did not demolish the optimism that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson has been displaying about farm prospects. Benson still insists that farmers stand to average somewhat higher prices and incomes than in 1956. Buttressing his opinion were some hopeful facts. Hog and cattle prices are better than last year; the broiler industry appears to be overcoming a surplus problem, and dairymen are producing and selling more than last year. The Government's price-depressing hoard of surplus wheat, cotton and corn is slowly being whittled away. And this year farmers...
Administration's 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction (TIME, Dec. 3). It was "formally" brought to an end a week before the longshoremen went back to work, by agreement on a contract between the I.L.A. brass and the New York Shipping Association, representing its own 170 members and sister associations up and down the coast. But portly Captain William V. Bradley, I.L.A. President, fell on his face when it came time to deliver...
After the New York Times plumped for federal pensions for ex-Presidents, the son of one, Cincinnati's Mayor Charles P. Taft, took mild exception to an editorial reference to his family's wealth. Wrote Taft: "You speak of 'the late Senator Robert A. Taft, son of a relatively wealthy President' . . . [President] William H. Taft was not wealthy by any financial standard . . . He saved while he was in the White House . . . My brother and I inherited from our father and mother only the house at Murray Bay, Canada, now, unfortunately, burned...
...strike last Tuesday actually was a resumption of a nine-day walkout in November. That was interrupted under the Taft-Hartley law provision for an 80-day cooling off period...