Word: ans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"We went from Black Sunday to White Wednesday," crowed an Agriculture Department official in Washington last week. Suddenly whitened were Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's prospects of hanging on until the end of the Eisenhower Administration despite huge crop surpluses and massive farm-program spending.
After the program, Benson telephoned Morton, arranged an appointment with him for the following day. Then Benson wrote out a statement: "Resign? I am resigned to one thing: to do my duty as I see it, to continue my fight for a prosperous, expanding and free agriculture." In a 45...
Turnabout. White Wednesday was a good day for Ezra Taft Benson, who has had many bad days in the past seven years (and will doubtless have plenty of them in the year ahead). Home from the hospital, he pored happily over the news from Iowa. Out in Chicago at its...
On a brisk raid into fresh Nixon territory last week, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller whirled through seven states in seven days. Purpose of the expedition to Indiana, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Texas and Florida: to test the political climate in the heartland before deciding early next month...
School Segregation: The Supreme Court's 1954 decision against segregation was an "affirmation and clarification of the essential liberties and the abiding principles by which America must live."