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...DALE R. TAFT...
...Midwest the snigger of the week was about the new "Benson tractor"-built without a seat, to accommodate farmers who have lost their pants. In Washington Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had little time for worrying about such Farm Belt jeers: he had on his hands an urgent, deadly serious piece of business with members of the Senate Agriculture Committee...
...sixth time . . . However, I would have felt embarrassed to go to the voters and ask them to vote for me on six separate occasions." He feels no embarrassment, though, in asking the voters for another favor: the seat in the U.S. Senate made famous by the late Robert A. Taft, and now uneasily occupied by George Bender. Lausche's eye is firmly fixed on the Senate, but if the Lausche luck holds, he may lift his gaze upward this year to a far more important job in Washington, the presidency...
...swinging Ohio to Truman by a breathtaking 7,000 votes). Both Mike DiSalle and Tom Burke got a limp pat on the back from the governor in their unsuccessful campaigns for the Senate. Lausche's refusal to back "Jumping Joe" Ferguson and his openly expressed admiration of Bob Taft in their 1950 race won the governor the undying hatred of many party-first Democrats in Ohio. To most Democrats who ask for a helping hand, the governor has a stock answer: "I don't have time." He found time, however, to push his way through a Columbus...
Faith Healer Coe angrily lumped Taft and the Herald with the Devil. But at week's end he had yet to accept the challenge, inspired by Taft's stories, of three ministers of the Miami Churches of Christ. They offered to pay Coe $2,500 if his "faith healing" would cure anyone who had been duly certified as ill by two physicians, and then certified as cured...