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...third time since he assumed office-and for the second time against the rampaging International Longshoremen's Association-Dwight Eisenhower last week invoked the national-emergency provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike in the interests of the "national health and safety." In three fast-moving days the President 1) ordered a specially convened board of inquiry to look into the facts behind the East and Gulf Coast strike (TIME, Nov. 26) by the I.L.A. against the New York Shipping Association; 2) asked for and got a Federal Court injunction ordering the 60,000 strikers back...
...explanation so simple is available for the Northern Senators who will oppose the change. Some will sincerely maintain, with the late Senator Taft, that the Senate gains "prestige and power" through continuing status. Others may simply feel that the Democrats are easier to beat if a filibustering Senator can be shown to Negro voters...
PORK PRICES will be boosted by new Government buying program. Including current lard purchases, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson will make $100 million available immediately to buy pork for school-lunch programs and other nonprofit uses. As result, pork prices, which had slipped below $15 per hundredweight for first time since March, spurted ahead last week to $15.50 per hundredweight...
...televised college press conference at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., some of the traveling reporters stood on the sidelines and slipped the college students headline-making questions. Prompted by a traveling reporter, a persistent student editor taxed Nixon about his failure to mention Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson in his speeches. Would Nixon favor the retention of Benson in the Eisenhower Administration, and why had he avoided mentioning Benson? Replied Nixon: "When I go into the state where a Cabinet Secretary lives, I then give him his commercial ... I mentioned Mr. Benson in Utah . . . The first part...
...further declared that President Eisenhower has "betrayed" labor by failing to make good on his promise to secure amendment of the Taft-Hartley Act. Although Eisenhower still admits the need for these changes, Reuther said, he has done nothing about it because he is merely a front for a "small group of conservative die-hards who still call all the shots in the Republican Party...