Reminiscences of William Benton, 1968
- Name
- Benton, William, 1900-1973 (Interviewee)
- Keylor, William R., 1944-
- Title
- Reminiscences of William Benton, 1968
- Abstract
- 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 Secret ary 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
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Educators; Executives; Government executives--United States; Legislators--United States; Advertising agencies; United States Politics and government 1945-1989; Benton, William, 1900-1973; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986; University of Chicago; United States. Congress; United States. Department of State
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1968
- Physical Description
- 213 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Senator, publisher
- Note
- Interviewed by William R. Keylor
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 15320528
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-xpsz-f487
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.