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...managed the Republicans' national Speakers Bureau, booking Republican speeches all over the U.S. During the 80th Congress he chaired and drastically reorganized the Congressional Campaign Committee. Three years later he ran into the biggest political fight of his career by refusing to vote for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. William De Koning, Nassau County's racketeering labor boss, called on Hall in a rage. Hall still quivers with indignation when he recalls it: "This labor thug-he is just out of jail-came to see me to raise hell about Taft-Hartley. Finally, he took the position...
...farm problem moved toward a decision on Capitol Hill last week, ancient Egypt's farm plan was drawn into the argument by the Joseph of 1956. On the griddle before the House Committee on Agriculture, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson stood stubbornly by his flexible price supports and his soil bank. Chiding Benson, North Carolina Democrat Harold Cooley said that the soil bank was, in fact, a Democratic idea used in the 1930s. Replied Mormon Apostle Benson: "Its sources probably go back to Joseph in Egypt...
...succeeds to an office filled in the past by several prominent public servants and members of the bar. Among the former Review Presidents are the Rate Senator Robert A. Taft, the late secretary of War Robert Patterson, David F. Cavers, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law, and Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Faculty...
Convinced by uncontested evidence of his Communist Party membership, a Denver jury two months ago decided that Maurice E. Travis, ex-secretary-treasurer of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, had perjured himself by filing the non-Communist affidavits required of union leaders by the Taft-Hartley Act. Last week, up for sentencing before U.S. District Judge Jean S. Breitenstein, Travis, 45, drew eight years in prison and an $8,000 fine-the heaviest punishment yet inflicted for perjury on a Taft-Hartley affidavit. Said Communist Travis: "I have been a radical, a nonconformist all my adultlife...
...Pays? Caught in this predicament, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week, as several times before, sought to pin some of the blame for low farm prices on the meat packing industry. Said he, at a San Francisco gathering of the Western States Meat Packers Association: "Last August the packing industry granted wage increases equal to roughly a $50 million annual boost. Who paid for the increase? The evidence is that most of it was paid by ranchers and farmers-who paid by taking lower prices for meat animals." As evidence. Benson cited Agriculture Department figures showing that...