Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people are gloomier, professionally and perennially, than the men who run the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. Guests at Princeton's Bicentennial Conference on Engineering and Human Affairs last week heard a habitual prophet of doom: Dr. Hugh H. Bennett, 65, chief U.S. conservationist. In his best doomsday voice Dr. Bennett talked about soil and its abuse. Every decade, he said, there are 200,000,000 more people in the world and less soil from which to feed them. A vast acreage is being ruined each year. Something must be done for the soil...
...something has already been done, and Dr. Bennett did it. Soon after he joined the Department of Agriculture as a young chemist in 1903, he was sent to Louisa County, Virginia, to see why its soil was so poor. His shocking discovery: the soil was not just poor; most of it was gone, washed down roaring gullies or spirited away by stealthy "sheet erosion." And it was not only the backward South that was threatened with soil destruction. U.S. farmers everywhere, ignoring erosion by water and wind and over-cropping, were squandering the nation's most vital asset...
Land Doctors. Bennett became a soil crusader. Year by year more people, and more important people, listened to his prophecies of disaster. In 1933, Secretary of the Interior Ickes made him head of a newly created bureau: the Soil Erosion Service. Two years later Franklin Roosevelt summoned Bennett to the White House, made him head of the brand-new Soil Conservation Service...
...Bucks County, Pa., a region thickly settled by Broadway wits and literary wights; but his four-story, pink stucco Paris house has two studios. And he likes the talk on Paris' left bank. Last week he was shamelessly spending his time reading dusty old letters from Arnold Bennett and Gertrude Stein and arranging an art show...
...such inner pains. They felt that Tom Dewey's excellent record as Governor (income taxes cut by half, a $500,000,000 surplus, a rent-control act, an anti-discrimination law, etc.) made him even stronger than in 1942. Then he gave Jim Farley's John J. Bennett a terrific trouncing (and took about 40% of the New York City vote). Jim Mead scared the GOPsters not one bit; and until last week it did not seem to matter much whom Tom Dewey picked to run for the Senate. The LaGuardia boom ripped apart their apathy. It would...