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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposals he will make to Congress early next year. Chief aim: to extend to wheat the same program that failed in corn, abolish acreage controls while lowering price supports from $1.77 to $1.40 per bu. Because the plan links support prices to the average market prices for the preceding three years (abandoning the old parity ratio based on 1910-14 figures), the Benson program will admittedly lead to a gradual downstep of prices each year. Benson believes that dropping prices will ultimately cut down the amount of wheat raised; U.S. farmers, past masters of food production, bet that they...
Under a bright sun that was AWOL during his visit last month, Dwight Eisenhower last week stepped from Columbine III at Augusta's Bush Field. "Boy," said he, "this is better weather." Budget problems pressing, his strenuous mission to eleven countries only three weeks away, the President was eager to relax. Sped to the Augusta National Golf Club, he swapped his brown business suit for slacks and a sports shirt, was on the practice tee within 15 minutes...
...Washington the word seeped out that Speaker Sam Rayburn, permanent chairman of the last three Democratic National Conventions, will not accept that honorific spot again at next July's convention in Los Angeles. The chairman, Mister Sam feels, should be conspicuously neutral, and Rayburn's own all-out support of Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson's presidential ambitions rules...
...fashioned upbringing in a close-knit, pious, hard-working family in Johnson County. Texas, just south of Fort Worth. His father (who died fortnight ago at 81) was a storekeeper in the little town of Burleson, later took up farming on a 120-acre tract in Godley. Stricken at three with an attack of polio that left him with a limp, Bob grew up a bookish, unathletic lad, but he did his farm chores right along with the four other Anderson children. "He was serious-minded," his mother recalls. "From the time he was a very small child he wanted...
...attending courses at the University of Texas law school right through the summers, he plowed through the three-year law curriculum in two years, graduated with the highest average in his class. Toward the end of his second year, mindful that jobs were scarce for young lawyers in 1932, he ran for the state legislature from his home district. Elected on graduation day, he took his place among his fellow Democrats in the Texas house of representatives as a gangly country boy of 22. "When he got up and spoke," a former colleague recalls, "things that were vague and misty...