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...Royal Air Force Benson Rowing Club had an impressive list of triumphs to its credit. With an average weight of 12 stone 8--176 pounds--the RAF men had an immediate 27-pound advantage a man. They had defeated Clare College of Cambridge, the Isis Boat Club of Oxford, and the Crowland Rowing Club handily...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: The Royal Regatta at Henley on Thames | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Ezra Taft Benson, once a Republican hairshirt, is now generally regarded as a true prophet because he has consistently tried to bring some sense to the chaotic farm-subsidy program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Changing Campaign | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Having suffered through the woolly-headed schemes of the New Deal Agriculture Department (he twice submitted his resignation to Henry Wallace, twice got talked out of leaving), Milton Eisenhower agrees with Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's stand against high, rigid, surplus-producing farm subsidies, has defended Benson against his critics. But not in the White House. "This," he has told the President, "is one thing on which I have definite opinions and strong views. I shouldn't be talking about the job of your Agriculture Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Youngest Brother | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...with higher acreage, with a floor for all of about 27? a pound by 1962; 3) gradually cuts supports on rice to 65%. The Senate Agriculture Committee accepted the House bill, paved the way for quick passage before adjournment. Result: a crowning triumph for Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rush Hour | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...persecutions (Smith himself was killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.) to a present pinnacle of prosperity and respectable good will. Today the Mormons, with headquarters in Salt Lake City, own canneries, insurance companies, banks, number among their ruling Twelve Apostles a U.S. Cabinet officer (Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson). Members in good standing donate a tenth of their incomes to the church. Five thousand missionaries from the U.S. and 1,700 native missionaries are hard at work and there are Mormons in every country of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pageant of the Tablets | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

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