Farmers Back Benson Policies Amid Grievances to Government Aid
James Daniel of Scripps-Howard reports farmers widely favor the new secretary of agriculture Ezra Taft Benson 15 to 1 though some express irritation at what they call insults to their intelligence. A cattleman notes beef prices rose 200 percent while wholesale prices rose 113 percent and calls for a correction.
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James Daniel
Scripps-Howard
Secretary of Agriculture
Daniel
Ezra Taft Benson
Agriculture Department
Cabinet cash for accrued leave shocks postwar era
A Senate panel probes 215 Truman era officials who took 709538 in cash for unused leave at end of service. Eight cabinet members are listed plus other top aides including Brannan and Donnelly. Civil service notes legality, while critics call it a potential breach of congressional intent.
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Truman
James McGrannery
J. Howard McGrath
Thomas K. Finletter
Frank Pace, Jr
Dan A. Kimball
Robert Ramspeck
Civil Service Commission
Oscar R. Ewing
William O'Dwyer
Mexico
Philip C. Jessop
Walter J. Donnelly
U. S
Germany
House Appropriations
Congress
Brannan
Sawyer
Letters criticize senators over economics and dam spending
Daniel noted letters attacking Mr Benson by congress members. One writer warns, Don't let Senator go and so take you in, questioning his economics understanding. Another accuses a different senator of party above principle for approving an $80,000,000 dam project in our state.
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Daniel
Benson
Congress
Stalin's Death Saddens Soviet People Across Nation
AP dispatch from Moscow notes widespread grief as tears flowed from a cab driver who called Stalin a real person. Eisenhower sent condolences and Truman expressed sympathy from Missouri, reflecting mixed American responses to the longtime leader's passing.
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Stalin
Moscow
Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Missouri
World War II echoes in 1953 column on Stalin Rosenbergs and Fast
A 1953 column condemns Stalin's crimes and defends Truman while noting Cold War tensions. It attacks Howard Fast and the Rosenbergs trial as political instruments, arguing anti-Semitism and pro peace co existence rhetoric fuel fear and repression.
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Korea
Harry Truman
Stalin
Malenkov
McCarthy Committee
Voice of America
Howard Fast
United States
Ussr
U. S
Fast
Kremlin
L’humanite
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Norda Lee Bodily
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Ashbrex Hampton
Preston
Franklin
Idaho
Dean Acheson
John W. Snyder
Robert A. Lovett
Jesse M. Donaldson
Oscar L. Chapman
Charles F. Brannan
Charles Sawyer
Maurice J. Tobin
Westinghouse
Ken's Electric Company
Preston and Soda Springs
Vardis Fisher
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