Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the election, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had looked forward to smooth plowing for his soil-bank program. He needed to rally the corn farmers to the program with more enthusiasm. And to do this, he was prepared to allocate considerably more acreage to the cornmen-though with a lower support price ($1.31 v. $1.36 a bu.)-if only the farmers would renounce the surplus-building system of the old acreage-allotment plan. Last week corn farmers put Benson's new plan to a vote. Result: in the 894 commercial corn counties in the U.S., cornmen stubbornly...
...demonstrated fine ball control and the best set shot seen at Harvard for several years. The rest of the ten-man squad, Griff McClellan, Bryant Danner, Bob Barnett, and Bill Schreiber, will probably play about the same amount they did against Brown, as Coach Wilson seeks to develop two smooth-working fives...
...Smooth-Paced. Nonetheless, Herter ran for governor and was elected. After building up a record in two terms as governor, he announced early this year that he would not run for reelection. He immediately became the unwilling object of affection of various "Christian Herter for President in case Eisenhower doesn't run" clubs, and Harold Stassen started a noisy campaign to have him replace Dick Nixon as vice-presidential candidate. But Herter refused to turn against his old colleague. He not only supported Nixon but, in a dramatic moment at San Francisco, placed him in nomination...
...Under Secretary of State. Herter, 61, will be a smooth-paced replacement for an Under Secretary whose administrative talents sometimes outpaced his policymaking skills. President Eisenhower accepted Herbert Hoover Jr.'s resignation with "deep regret," paid tribute to Hoover's "outstanding ability and dedication." And Chris Herter's friends quickly pointed out that he would make a logical successor to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles if, when and for whatever reason Dulles bowed...
...Secretary Wilson spotted Burgess-a Democrat-for-Eisen-hower-and brought him full-time into the Administration as Assistant Defense Secretary. Manpower Expert Burgess worked out the Army's new Ready Reserve Program, headed the committee that wrote the post-Korean prisoner-of-war code. A hard-but smooth-working executive with a knack for grasping complicated ideas and reducing them to a two-sentence précis, Burgess won a reputation as one of the best administrators in Government. As administrator of the nation's fourth largest airline, Burgess will earn an estimated $100,000 (including bonuses...