Word: bensons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after his lionlike complaints, the President offered lamblike recommendations. He urged Congress to abandon the parity formula-based on farm prices and farm costs in 1910-14, good years for U.S. farmers-and let Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson set price supports between 75% and 90% of the average market price in the preceding three years. As an alternative, if Congress could not bring itself to discard the parity idea, Ike suggested that Benson get authority to set support prices as low as 60% of parity...
...carrying out mission No. 2, Nixon may preside over televised hearings. Whether the committee's Cabinet members-Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss-will fracture Cabinet tradition by turning public investigators has not yet been decided...
Emboldened by Simpson and Goldwater, Midwestern committeemen opened another file cabinet, urged the firing of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, whom they blame for the heavy G.O.P. losses in the Midwest. At that point Alcorn got the anti-Benson motion tabled, closed the two-day session on a note of hearty approval for the Alcorn program...
While Tufts never had any real chance of winning the game, it managed to keep the score down by harassing the Crimson in its own zone and by packing its goal. Captain Dick McLaughlin, Dick Fischer, and Stew Forbes scored the other varsity goals, while Paul Farrell and Bruce Benson tallied for the Jumbos...
Four successive penalties severely handicapped the Crimson attack in the second period and for about ten minutes the varsity never had more than five men on the ice. Tufts managed to capitalize on the last of these misdemeanors at 13:28 when Benson took a pass from Farrell and beat Harry Pratt cleanly. The Crimson retaliated at 17:21 as Higginbottom got his third goal on passes from Vietze and Fischer...