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...Taft Could Have Won. "Rarely in American history," Lubell writes, "has the craving for tranquillity and moderation commanded more general public support...
Proposals which would have gone far towards this end were introduced, of course, in the Eightieth Congress, yet none of them succeeeded, in spite of Republican majorities in both houses. The Taft-Hartley Act, which emerged as the compromise, cast formidable new obstacles in the way of union organization and conferred advantages upon management vis-a-vis labor which had not been therefore a part...
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson went a step further. Said he: "I cannot conceive of President Eisenhower signing a farm bill he knows and I know is a bad bill...
...Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson kept selling what he could sell, and giving away the rest. In three years more than 600 million pounds were donated for welfare use (e.g., school lunches) at home and abroad, and some 300 million pounds were sold, some at reduced prices for export. Last week Benson announced the startling results of his efforts: the U.S. Government is fresh out of surplus butter, will go into the peak milk-producing season beginning April 1 without an unsold pound on its shelves...
...Only the Hired Hand." Speaking as often as eight times a day, Stevenson bore down hardest on the Eisenhower farm program. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, he said, is "only the hired hand," while President Eisenhower is "the owner, the boss." Added Stevenson, sarcastically: "It is curious that all anyone ever says about the owner is that he ought to be re-elected President of the U.S." The real reason Eisenhower is running again, said Stevenson, is that "he can't afford to retire to the farm at Gettysburg while Benson is Secretary of Agriculture...