Reminiscences of William Benton : oral history, 1968.

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Reminiscences of William Benton : oral history, 1968.

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Family background, schooling in Minnesota and Montana; Carleton College, Yale University; National Cash Register Co.; advertising agencies, Lord & Thomas, Batten Company, Benton & Bowles, 1929-1936; new techniques of consumer research, General Foods accounts; vice president, University of Chicago, 1937-1945; America First; government research at University of Chicago, World War II; Assistant Secretary of State, 1945-1947; Senator from Connecticut, 1949-1953; resolution to expel Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1951; Smith-Mundt Bill; creation of Commission for Economic Development; vignettes of Chester Bowles, Robert E. Wood, Charles Lindbergh, Nelson Rockefeller, Anna Rosenberg, James Byrnes, Will Clayton, Arthur Vandenburg, Robert A. Taft, and many others.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Senator, publisher. From the description of Reminiscences of William Benton : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481066 From the description of Reminiscences of William Benton : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309721364 Art collector, politician; Chicago, Ill. Publisher of ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, Vice-President of the University of...