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...decades had there been so much furor about the economic situation of U.S. farmers. There were recurring rumors that Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson might be forced out of the Cabinet; there were shouts for a return to the old, rigid, farm-price supports at 90% of parity. Some pundits even began to write about general "poverty" on U.S. farms...
Along with his medical progress, the President's working program was stepped up. Bedside appointments with government officials were more frequent and longer. Among the week's visitors: U.N. Representative Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson (see above), Interior Secretary Douglas McKay. One afternoon Dr. Arthur Burns, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Gabriel Hauge, the President's personal economic adviser, met with Ike and got his approval of a domestic Point 4 program (see above). One morning the President worked for 45 minutes on a draft of his 1956 State...
...Young Lamplighter. Lausche broke his first rule at birth: he committed the political error-in Ohio, which tends almost exclusively toward such oldstock political names as Harrison and Taft-of being the son of Slovenian immigrants. While a boy in Cleveland, Lausche worked as a street-lamplighter for two dollars a week. His father, a steelworker, died when Frank was 14 and, as the second of ten children, Lausche took on much of the responsibility for supporting the family. He helped his mother run a small cafe, and he also found time to become a star third baseman...
...success as a Democratic politician, Lausche is the despair of Ohio's professional Democrats, most of whom he loudly classifies as "bosses." In 1950, when his loyal supporter, State Auditor Joe Ferguson, ran for the U.S. Senate, Lausche made it quite plain that he thought Republican Robert A. Taft was a much better man (Taft beat Ferguson by 450,000 votes while Lausche was being re-elected Governor by 150,000). Since 1952, Lausche has been unstinting in his praise of Republican Dwight Eisenhower, only last week said in a speech that Eisenhower has brought "unity and confidence...
Novelist (Studs Lonigan) James T. Farrell said it was overbalanced with works by Communist "hatchetmen" and showed "inexcusable sloppiness." Wrote Brown University's Labor Economist Philip Taft: "You deserve a vote of thanks from the Communist Party." Reviewing the bibliography in the New Leader, the I.L.G.W.U.'s Dr. John A. Sessions noted astonishing omissions. Example: the morumentally anti-Communist autobiography of Angelica Balabanoff, onetime first secretary of the Communist International. The bibliography, wrote Sessions, "has no room for the works which have hurt the Communists most...