Word: wednesday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Turnabout. White Wednesday was a good day for Ezra Taft Benson, who has had many bad days in the past seven years (and will doubtless have plenty of them in the year ahead). Home from the hospital, he pored happily over the news from Iowa. Out in Chicago at its yearly convention, the staunchly Republican, 1,400,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation unanimously adopted a pro-Benson wheat plan that calls for lowering the support price from the present $1.77 a bushel under acreage controls to about $1.30 with no controls-a "lowering" that could well bring...
Attorneys for the Corporation took the latest step in the Arnold Arboretum case on Wednesday, in filing an answer to an action pending before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. In "Answer to Revised Information," the attorneys set forth the University's position in a controversy which has existed since the early...
Taken off guard by a strong M.I.T. contingent, the varsity fencers swept epee 8 to 1 and barely eked out a 15-12 overall victory Wednesday...
Freshman contributions have been particularly outstanding, with Yard donations now totaling $4300, already exceeding last year's final total by over $1000. Lowell House, after a disappointing start, has now moved to first place among the Houses with total gifts of $1395. Other totals through Wednesday are: Kirkland, $1360; Eliot, $1354 (with a high $7.70 average); Dunster, $1196; Leverett, $1190; Winthrop, $1175; Adams, $904; Quincy, $812 (with a low $4.75 average); Claverly, $305; and Dudley...