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Reed Benson, son of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, will speak tonight in Emerson F at 8 p.m. on GOP farm policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Benson's Son Will Speak | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Reece, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, and one of the late Senator Taft's most outspoken supporters, will talk on "To Socialism Via Tax-Exempt Foundations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Parties to Hold Rival Conventions | 5/11/1956 | See Source »

Forces of Change. Before it fanned out across the country, most of the political furor swirled around one man: Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture. He took it calmly. Seated firmly behind his Washington desk, listening to politicians warn him that his policies are going to lose the election, Secretary Benson glanced often at a motto, in small type, pasted to the marble base of his pen and pencil set, where only he could see it. "Oh Lord," it says, "give us men with a mandate higher than the ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Revolution, Not Revolt | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...bonds convertible into 36.5% of the stock-working control-of the city's only morning and Sunday paper, the prosperous Enquirer (circ. 206,408). Among the bidders: the Scripps-Howard chain, which owns the Cincinnati Post (circ. 164,646), and the city's third paper, the Taft-owned Times-Star (circ. 154,314), which narrowly missed taking over the Enquirer in 1952. The winner: Scripps-Howard, which paid $4,059,000 against a Times-Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Key to the Enquirer | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

UNION VICTORIES have been won in two important cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. In one, the court ruled that employers may not refuse to bargain with a union whose officers refuse to comply with the Taft-Hartley law's non-Communist affidavit. In the other, the court refused to rule on a lower-court decision that company stock purchase plans are subject to collective bargaining, thus in effect upheld the decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, may 7, 1956 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

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