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Agriculture. The President stood firm behind Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson's farm program. Said he: "Farm production is gradually adjusting to markets, markets are being expanded and stocks are moving into use. We can now look forward to an easing of the influences depressing farm prices, to reduced government expenditures for purchase of surplus products, and to less federal intrusion into the lives and plans of our farm people . . . I urgently recommend to the Congress that we continue resolutely on this road...
Labor. After reporting that fewer working days were lost through strikes in 1954 than in any other year of the past ten, the President renewed his recommendation that the Taft-Hartley law be amended to improve further the relations between management and labor. Another recommendation : that the minimum wage be increased from...
Deluded Critic. The resentment with which Carroll Reece, once (1946-48) Republican National Chairman and, in 1952, Bob Taft's Southern manager, regards educational and research foundations was apparently stirred up during the 1952 campaign. At that time, men connected with some of the biggest funds, notably the Ford Foundation's Paul Hoffman and Henry Ford II, were active Eisenhower partisans. Reece, who suffers from a delusion that he would have been Secretary of State if Bob Taft had been elected President, is particularly critical of foundation-sponsored research in foreign policy and world trade, most of which...
...lobby in the U.S. replaced O'Neal with Allan Blair Kline, a prosperous Iowa hog farmer (who had managed well enough during the Depression to build a swimming pool on his farm). Kline damned controls, helped kill the Brannan Farm Plan and then helped Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson push a flexible price-support law through Congress this year. Last week at the Farm Bureau's annual convention at New York, President Kline announced he was resigning because of ill health. In this change of leadership, however, there would be no change of policy...
Senator Knowland is a grey horse of another color . . . Upon Senator Taft's death he bluntly announced that he was a candidate for the leadership against all comers. Despite the thought that the Administration lacked enthusiasm for him, Senator Knowland was elected by his colleagues. And he has performed his duties, not following in the footsteps of Alben Barkley, but in the tradition of the Senate. Moreover, it is ex tremely doubtful that the Administration could defeat him if it tried...