Word: program
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embattled Agriculture Secretary was, as Loveless sensed, a big factor in the campaign. The Fourth District's farmers have been hit by falling prices,* and they reflect accurately the national discontent with the Benson farm program. Kyi, an attractive, articulate TV newscaster and clothing merchant, was careful to dissociate himself from Ezra Benson: "Please note that I do not run the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Mr. Benson most certainly is not a candidate in this district." But Democrat Gilmour, associate professor of political science at Grinnell College and a hardworking, handshaking campaigner, poured it on: "A vote...
...went from Black Sunday to White Wednesday," crowed an Agriculture Department official in Washington last week. Suddenly whitened were Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's prospects of hanging on until the end of the Eisenhower Administration despite huge crop surpluses and massive farm-program spending...
After the program, Benson telephoned Morton, arranged an appointment with him for the following day. Then Benson wrote out a statement: "Resign? I am resigned to one thing: to do my duty as I see it, to continue my fight for a prosperous, expanding and free agriculture." In a 45-minute talk with Morton the following afternoon, Benson made it plain that he meant what he had said: he was not going to resign...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Thomas Mitchell (host), Lisa Della Casa and Giorgio Tozzi of the Metropolitan Opera, Rosemary Clooney, twelve-year-old Violinist Penny Ambrose appear in a program of Christmas music...
Leonard Bernstein, Marian Anderson, the St. Paul's Cathedral Boys' Choir of Lon don and the Schola Cantorum in a program of Christmas music. Color...