Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago's ornate Civic Opera House one day last week, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson arose before 3,000 members of the American Farm Bureau Federation to talk about farm problems and policy. Just before he spoke, the "Deltones," a girls' trio from Delta County, Utah, sang "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town." But Ezra Taft Benson made no effort to pose as a man with a snowy white beard and a bag full of gifts...
Oregon: Dec. 30. Luncheon at the Benson Hotel, Portland. Bordon F. Beck, Jr. 1410 Yeon Bldg.; Philadelphia, Pa.: Dec. 29. L. Don Loet will speak at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Thomas S. Weary, 1617 Land Titio Bldg.; Rhode Island: Henry Lamar will speak at a luncheon Jan. 2 in Providence. Contact John S. Higgins, P.O. Box 1613; Rochester, N.Y.: Dec. 20. Lloyd Jordan will speak at a luncheon. Russell A. Sibley, 5 South Fitzhugh...
...last the Department of Agriculture has produced a book which should alert the nation's farmers to the malignant and dangerous growth of plant diseases. A comprehensive study with a foreword by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, Plant Diseases discusses pertinent maladies ranging from "Root Rots, Wilts and Blights of Peas," to "The Smuts of Wheat, Oats, and Barley." The report has not been published merely as a scientific discussion of plant problems, or to indicate how ruinous these diseases could be for the farmers. As Secretary Benson points out, "To me the most startling aspect of plant disease...
ARTHUR B. BENSON Los Angeles...
Through the big doorways of a white auditorium at Claremont, Calif, (pop. 7,000) one day last week, the presidents of three thriving colleges-E. Wilson Lyon of coeducational Pomona, Frederick Hard of Scripps College (for women) and George Benson of Claremont Men's College-filed in solemn procession for a special ceremony. As they do every two years, the three were meeting to proclaim which of them would serve as next provost of a fourth college, the Claremont Graduate School. This year, it happened to be President Hard's turn to take over; but the ceremony itself...