Reminiscences of William Benton, 1968.

Biographical Note

Senator, publisher

Scope and Contents

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

Subjects

• Advertising agencies.
• Benton, William, 1900-1973--Interviews.
• Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Keylor, William R., 1944-
• Legislators--United States--Interviews.
• McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Congress. Senate.
• United States. Department of State.
• University of Chicago.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975