Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip to victory, Harvard defeated the Twickenham Rowing Club, Kent (Connecticut) School, and Washington and Lee High School of Arlington, Virginia on successive days, and the Royal Air Force Benson Rowing Club on the morning of the final encounter...
...House defeated by a resounding 214 (162 Republicans, 52 Democrats) to 171 (21 Republicans, 150 Democrats) the House Agriculture Committee's wild, catchall farm bill to expand subsidies by raising price props and tightening production controls on milk, corn and grain, sorghums. Cheered Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: "A vote of confidence in ... those who are dedicated to returning American agriculture to a sound basis...
...even greater problem is the adjustment of the student to "life", or rather, the world outside of Putney. Mrs. Hinton retired three years ago, and was succeeded by H. Benson Rockwell; it is still too early to tell whether he will mitigate the pure idealism which shaped the school in its first two decades. But the early Putney will, in any case, be remembered as a very special, and in some ways unreal experience. It is only unreal because the world does not change easily, and Putney's standards of a complete life are higher than those of most communities...
...like easy sailing; the Administration's $3.9 billion authorization bill had cleared the House and the key Senate committee with surprisingly light nicks. And opposition to the reciprocal trade bill, scheduled for debate in the House this week, eased up. If Congressional outcries against Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson died away, and the President's veto of the Democratic farm bill was almost sure to stand...
...Coya Knutson, 45, slimmed down and modishly coiffed, was not about to leave Congress, where she had become a carping critic of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. When her intention to run again became clear, Andy Knutson backed away from his original ultimatum, said Coya could stay in Congress if only she would get rid of her handsome executive secretary. Bill Kjeldahl, 30. Said Andy: "The decisions made in Coya's office are not hers, but Kjeldahl's." But Coya Knutson was having none of that, either. Kjeldahl would stay, cried she. Her life...