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During the New Hampshire primary, Adams bore the brunt of campaigning for his absent candidate, and he is entitled to much of the credit for Ike's make-orbreak New Hampshire victory over Bob Taft. In July, as the Republicans trooped to Chicago for their national convention, Adams was named floor manager of the Eisenhower forces. Up to that time, Ike hardly knew Adams from Adam, but he was impressed by the terse, accurate battle reports sent by Adams from the floor...
Down on the Farm. The only real weak spot in IQSS'S economy was farming: U.S. farmers were-or thought they were-in serious trouble. All year long Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson manipulated the Government's farm controls, imposed flexible price supports, acreage allotments, marketing quotas. But he was running a losing race against the technology of farming. With bigger machines, better seed and fertilizer, farmers produced enough to feed a much bigger population, and the nation's surpluses mounted-14.5 million bales of cotton, 938 million bu. of wheat, 3.2 billion bu. of corn. Inevitably...
...Favoritism to big business . . . Government agencies have been put in the hands of businessmen. The Federal Power Commission includes two men who formerly represented private utilities; the National Labor Relations Board includes two lawyers who formerly represented management in cases before the NLRB as well as a former Taft assistant who helped push the Taft-Hartley law through Congress; the Securities and Exchange Commission includes two former stockbrokers, a former investment banker, and two lawyers whose firms represent major brokerage houses; the Federal Trade Commission's first G.O.P. chairman formerly represented companies in price-discrimination brought...
...depths of depression and the peaks of prosperity. Their keynoter was Farm Bureau President Charles Baker Shuman, a corn, cattle and soybean farmer from Sullivan, Ill. Shuman complained that farmers have been caught in "a serious cost-price squeeze," but went on to praise U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson as "a very conscientious man who is doing as good as any man in his job can do under the circumstances...
Glen R. Murray, Jr, 2L was named the first recipient of the Robert A. Taft Scholarship, Dean Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School announced yesterday. The scholarship, honoring the late Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, was created by Senator Taft's classmates in Harvard Law School's Class...