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Word: bensons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointments completely knocked down the Democratic campaign predictions that Robert Taft would run the Eisenhower Administration. Of the first eight appointees, only two-Ezra Benson of Salt Lake City and George Humphrey of Cleveland-were Taft supporters, and Humphrey's appointment had not been suggested by Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The New Team | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...Agriculture Committee (a job he will hold next January). Hope's successor would have been Minnesota's August Andresen, who represents a dairy state and might therefore antagonize grain farmers who suspect all dairymen of trying to lower grain prices. Ike's final choice: Ezra Taft Benson, a Utah marketing expert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The New Team | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

EZRA TAFT BENSON, 53, farm marketing specialist, one of the twelve apostles of the Mormon Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Administration: Secretary of Agriculture | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...physician sees plenty of onychophagy in his practice, but never bothers to do anything about it. After all, it is only nail-biting, and it is not the reason for the patient's visit. Also, it gets little attention in medical texts. When Dr. James M. Hesser, of Benson, out in the yucca-and-mesquite mesas of Arizona, wanted to know more about the cause & cure of nail-biting, he asked the A.M.A. Journal to fill him in. Last week the Journal replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nailing a Habit | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...were crying for his scalp before they had heard his case. (The editorials were running 2 to 1 against him.) Notable among the prematurely disillusioned was the dean of pro-Eisenhower dailies, the Republican New York Herald Tribune. Then, when Nixon walked into the lobby of Portland's Benson Hotel, reporters confronted him with the stories that Ike might dump him. He snapped a "no comment" and disappeared into his room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Remarkable Tornado | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

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