Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whether a military man should be in the White House. Answered Eisenhower: All the more reason to get good civilians in the Cabinet-like Benson. Benson's third reason was the one he felt most strongly: he was a clergyman, one of the Twelve Apostles who guide the Mormon Church. No clergyman should have to take a job where politics might compromise his principles. That was the opening for Ike Eisenhower's clincher. "Mr. Benson," said he, "we have a mandate from the American people to restore their faith in the U.S. Government. Surely you agree that that...
Early to Rise. Benson has taken command of his vastly complex task with the calm assurance of an able administrator, the energy and prayerful devotion of a Mormon missionary. A committee worker who believes, like every good Mormon, in cooperative endeavor, he has already streamlined the huge Agriculture Department so that only four men, instead of 20, report directly to him. Up at 5 and usually in his spacious, paneled office by 7:30 or 8, Benson starts most working days with a round of handshakes; he has met about one-third of the 8,000 Agriculture employees who work...
...tireless Benson machine, prayer is the basic fuel. A few years ago, when touring Mormon churches on a rehabilitation mission in Europe, Apostle Benson and other church leaders were blocked from entering Russian-occupied Poland. When things looked hopeless, Benson said: "I think I would like to pray," and went to his room. When he emerged, he announced to his assistant: "We are going to Poland. I have been commanded...
Within a day, Benson had cut through all the red tape, arranged for transportation and the necessary permission. Benson matches prayer with a tither's cash: at least 10% of his $22,500 Cabinet salary goes straight to the Mormon Church...
...could drive a team of horses at four; at ten he was thinning sugar beets and hand-milking a string of 30 cows morning and night. When he was 14, his father was called away on a Mormon mission; Ezra was left to run the family farm for two years. A leader in studies and sports at local Mormon schools, Ezra entered Utah State Agricultural College and met Flora Amussen, a tennis-playing coed considered "most popular girl in town." While the courtship was still young, the Mormon Church stepped in: Benson was picked as a missionary to England...