Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propose the names of Ezra Taft Benson and Arthur V. Watkins to share the honor? It is fitting that these Utahans epitomize the renaissance taking place in American politics, wherein honesty, virtue and human dignity are the prevailing guideposts directing governmental relations...
FARM PRICE PROPS will drop even further this year. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson feels that the Midwest election returns have justified his flexible price-support program, will now push for lower supports whenever practical. First to be chopped: feed grains, now supported at 85% of parity, which will probably...
Iowa: Republican Thomas Ellsworth Martin, 61, scored the election's big success for the Ezra Benson farm program by upsetting Old Campaigner Guy Gillette. Lawyer Martin waged an energetic but unimaginative campaign, spouting hog-price and corn-hog-ratio quotations across the state. He will move up to the Senate after 16 unspectacular years in the House...
ROSCOE DRUMMOND, the Republican New York Herald Tribune's chief Washington correspondent: The real "secret weapon" of the Republican campaign and the Republican winner of 1954 is Ezra Taft Benson, the flexible-price-support Secretary of Agriculture. The "farm revolt" just didn't develop. And Secretary Benson has shown himself to be, not the bogeyman, but the strong man of the Republican campaign, second only to the President himself...
...hair a crisp iron grey, Carmelita Hinton. 64, briskly announced that she would step down as head of Putney July 1. She added: "I hate to leave, but I have so many things before me that I'm boiling over." Founder Hinton's successor: Admissions Director Henry Benson Rockwell, a personable Princetonian ('37) who came to Putney from Connecticut's Pomfret School three years...