Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desk, with his face and bald head aglow with pancake makeup. His big "cue cards," which had been brought in only after news photographers had been shooed out of the room, were ready before him. On his right sat Attorney General Herbert Brownell, on his left, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby. All but Humphrey, who wore a white shirt, were arrayed in shades of "television blue...
...President, who ad-libbed from his cards, had to memorize their lines. All five reported twice for full-length rehearsals, which were carefully timed and shown for critical view on TV monitoring sets. On the final production, the four Cabinet members (whom Ike addressed variously as "Herb," "George," "Mr. Benson" and "Miz Hobby") commented conversationally on their hopes for congressional action. The President spoke briefly and reassuringly on the U.S. course in world affairs: "There is going to be no new Munich, and ... there is going to be no risk of a general...
...absentee Pennsylvania farm owner, took time one day last week from his capital chores for a visit to the U.S. Government's great agricultural research center (11,000 acres, 1,000 buildings, 2,000 hired hands) at Beltsville. Md. Guided by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson, Dwight Eisenhower inspected greenhouses, orchards, poultry pens, prize-winning cows. ("Of all things on the farm," said the President, "I hated milking most.") Fingering a lightweight raincoat made from corn fibers and fats, he wondered, half in jest and half with his mind on staggering federal butter surpluses, if "we could make...
...White House schedule, California's Bill Knowland, acting majority leader, presented a stripped-down list of "must" legislation: 1) Reorganization Plan No. 2, to give Agriculture Secretary Benson sweeping powers to reform and reshuffle his vast department; 2) reciprocal-trade extension; 3) the continental-shelf bill to give the Federal Government control of offshore oil beyond state boundaries; 4) the Watkins bill to grant emergency visas to 240,000 Iron Curtain refugees, other aliens. Also on the agenda: routine appropriations, extension of the excess profits tax. Apparently overboard for this session: 1) Hawaiian statehood; 2) revision of Taft-Hartley...
...Benson, 33, is shorter (5 ft. 9 in.) and chunkier than Henry, and more of a desk man. For a while he liked nightclubs more than the office. But now he is the hardest worker of the three. He puts in long hours as boss of the Lincoln-Mercury division, has not had time for a round of golf in two years. But he finds time to cruise on Lake St. Clair on weekends in his 42-ft. cabin cruiser with his wife, the former Edith McNaughton of Detroit, and their two children. Like Henry, Ben has also developed into...