Reminiscences of William Benton
Auteur : William Benton
Date de publication : 1968
Éditeur : Non disponible
Nombre de pages : 426
Résumé du livre
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.