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...prefers a freer market is too much. Suddenly, reporters began badgering Benson with that ominous Washington question: "Are you going to resign?" As early as mid-September both Ike and his Secretary of Agriculture were aware of the power of the question to change the tide. In Denver to confer with the President, Benson said: "I did not go to Washington because I wanted the job. The President may have my resignation any time he wants to ask for it." Eisenhower told friends: "The way I feel now, I will never ask for Ezra's resignation...
Eden uneasily dodged questioners, indicating he was a little unsure himself of his future status, and took himself to 10 Downing Street to confer with the Prime Minister. Later, 10 Downing Street issued a succinct announcement: "As from next Monday...Mr. Anthony Eden will resume his duties as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...
Watch for Trouble. Republican rebuttal was soon forthcoming. Tom Dewey and Michigan Senator Homer Ferguson raised the expected cry of "appeasement." But Adlai Stevenson had not explicitly suggested any concessions to Communism. Truman and Eisenhower had both said that the U.S. would confer with the Soviet leaders if the circumstances offered any chance of progress toward peace. Stevenson's proposal could be read as advocacy of a "softer" approach or it could be read as a restatement of an old U.S. attitude. This ambiguity was appropriate in the leader of a party whose logical course at present...
Merger of the three bodies is still quite a way off, with many a hurdle left to take. The denomination's fourscore presbyteries have from now until November to study the plan; if three-fourths of them report favorably on it, the church's permanent committee will confer with their Northern and United brethren from November 1953 to May 1954. Then the revised plan will go through nearly the whole process all over again, with merger-if all goes well-in the spring of 1956. By the same time, the union plan accepted last month by the Northern...
Forty-four per cent of the senior class will receive honors and four of them will graduate summa cum laude. Those getting the highest honor that Radcliffe can confer are Margaret Stuart Bryan of Cambridge; Nancy Harriet Goldring of New York City; Laura Jane Klein of South Orange; and Catherine Lucretia Rubino of Port Chester, New York...