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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strikes: The President should have power to impose compulsory arbitration on the two sides when a strike threatens the nation's welfare. (Present law makes no provision for compulsory arbitration, and the Administration has never recommended...
...year ahead). Home from the hospital, he pored happily over the news from Iowa. Out in Chicago at its yearly convention, the staunchly Republican, 1,400,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation unanimously adopted a pro-Benson wheat plan that calls for lowering the support price from the present $1.77 a bushel under acreage controls to about $1.30 with no controls-a "lowering" that could well bring on the greatest wheat glut of all. In Washington, Chairman Morton, though privately gloomy about Benson's decision to stay on, did a public turnabout from Black Sunday, urged fellow Republicans...
Recognition of Red China: He is against recognition at present, but thinks that a new look at China policy may be needed later on. "As one looks to the future, Red China is emerging as a force of tremendous proportions, and must be taken into account by the free world...
...replace the present system of price supports, Rocky advocated what he called "stabilization supports," based on production costs and farmers' net income, rather than the prevailing parity concept of equalized purchasing power. But his explanation of what he meant was hazy. Two Midwestern farm experts who read the speech came to opposite conclusions. One said that Rockefeller had "turned his back on Benson." The other called Rockefeller "Benson in sheep's clothing...
...Hill of gangsters. Near by are the tombs of Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti and Paul ("Needle Nose") La Briola. Dion O'Banion is also buried there, and near the Touhy plot is a grave site reserved for Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo, kingpin of Chicago's rackets, and present unchallenged boss of the Capone...