Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitch for postal rate increases. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom promised to develop some sort of plan to improve U.S. scientific training (significantly, Folsom said nothing whatever about the Administration's last school construction program, which was killed in the House). Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson talked about saving $500 million by eliminating the acreage reserve section of the soil-bank program (a good part of that saving might be offset by increased subsidies). Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, while avoiding talk of tax increases, plugged for renewal of the 52% corporation tax rate...
Married. Don Larsen, 28, New York Yankee pitcher and baseball immortal (the only perfect game in World Series history, against the Brooklyn Dodgers last year); and onetime Airline Stewardess Corrine Audrey Bruess, 26; he for the second time, she for the first; in Benson, Minn...
...morning the conference was with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; that afternoon the Agriculture Department proposals were discussed; next morning it was the Mutual Security program. The style of the sessions was informal, generally on a first-name basis, although some officials, e.g., Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, alternated between "Mr. Vice President" and "Dick...
...Morris Inc. (Philip Morris, Marlboro, Parliament), was elected president and chief executive officer to succeed O. Parker McComas, who died of a heart attack last week at 62. "Joe Third" Cullman had been groomed by McComas since he joined Philip Morris as vice president in 1954, when it bought Benson & Hedges. Member of a wealthy tobacco family (Manhattan's Cullman Bros. Inc.) that owns some 80,000 shares (2.5%) of Philip Morris common stock, Joe Cullman graduated from Yale ('35), worked as a $15-a-week cigar-store clerk and a cigar maker in Cuba before joining Webster...
Returning from a 24-day world-circling observation junket (termed by his foes a "farewell present" from the Administration), Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson flew into Washington and a round of reporters' goading about his ever-rumored resignation. "That question has been raised ever since the first week I took the job," said Ezra. "I presume if the prognosticators work long enough, they are sure to hit it right some time. I have no plans to leave...