Word: thye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noon Benson stepped from his official Cadillac outside the Senate Office Building, tugged grimly on his broad-brimmed hat, and hurried to keep a luncheon date with three Republican Farm Belt Senators: Minnesota's Edward Thye, South Dakota's Karl Mundt and North Dakota's Milton Young. A few days earlier, in a preliminary Agriculture Committee vote, all three had sided with an eight-to-seven majority for restoring farm supports pegged rigidly at 90% of parity. This invitation to new surpluses was patently ridiculous, because the committee had also voted for the Administration's soil...
...minutes, over a veal-and-rice casserole in Thye's office, Ezra Benson tried for a conversion. He failed...
Minnesota's Republican Senator Edward J. Thye, among other public officials, backed them up. He asked for a quick, short Government pork-buying program while the fall hog run is at its height. Said a Benson aide: "The Department of Agriculture is watching the hog market closely, and has already developed machinery for making purchases, should they be deemed necessary. Buying could get under way on short notice." The purchases would amount to something like 170 million lbs., only 1½% of the year's total expected output. But it is big enough to raise prices if compressed...
...uproar that followed, the President soon learned that there was a lot more to the case. Northwest's scrappy, 42-year-old President Don Nyrop flew to Washington. A onetime CAB chairman who knows his way around the Capitol, Nyrop got Minnesota's Republican Senator Edward Thye to call on the President with a new sheaf of facts and figures supplied by Nyrop and CAB's Acting Chairman Chan Gurney. Pan Am had indeed led in passengers for the last two years, but most of its bulge came in 1953, when plane-short Northwest had to shift...
Last week Ike fired off a new letter to CAB. reversing himself and giving back Northwest its Honolulu run for three more years, in competition with Pan American. At his press conference, Ike said bluntly that he had "made an error." Said Minnesota's Thye: "As soon as he got the facts, he changed his decision...