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...Taft-Hartley Act. "I think that the Taft-Hartley Act, far beyond the understanding of the general public, was intended to give protection to all workers, and I think that's the spirit in which our Government should...
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson presented himself before the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry one morning last week, radiating ease and self-assurance. Three days earlier, President Eisenhower had sent to the Congress an 8,000-word farm program designed to reduce the country's agricultural commodity surpluses and to end the down-drift in farm income. The President had held firmly to Benson's principle of flexible price supports, making no concessions to those-including Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson-who advocate rigid high price supports...
...whether he voted for Republican Robert Taft against Democrat Joe Ferguson in Ohio's 1950 senatorial election. "I know Joe Ferguson. He is a good man: he's a decent man. I knew Bob Taft and I had profound respect for him because of his courage and devotion to duty . . . If I would say that I did not vote for Bob Taft I would not be telling the truth...
...Army liaison man on Capitol Hill, part of that time as Army Chief of Staff Eisenhower's representative with Congress. Under Persons, as liaison men with Congress, are Administrative Assistants I. Jack Martin, 47, and Bryce Harlow, 39. Martin, onetime administrative assistant to Senator Robert A. Taft, is especially liked and respected on the Hill...
October. Ezra Taft Benson will propose a new solution to the farm problem: plow under every third farmer. The CRIMSON will go to Wellesley to conduct the Miss Radcliffe contest. The Government and Economics departments will cancel all courses since their professors are working for "Democracy...