Word: ben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lew Wallace, 70, Indianapolis barrister, nephew of the late General Lew Wallace, Hoosier author of Ben Hur; from a heart attack; in Indianapolis. Barrister Wallace's father was a law partner of President Benjamin Harrison. Ovid Butler, one of Barrister Wallace's grandfathers, founded Indiana's Butler University; Grandfather David Wallace was once Indiana's Governor...
Gardner Lothrop Lewis Jr. '30 of Swampscott, has ben elected captain to the Harvard Second University football team, it was announced yesterday...
...Ben" Turner received the rousing cheer to which he was entitled as retiring Chairman of the General Council of the British Trade Union Congress. Hard-bitten "Ben" Tillett was then elected Chairman...
...Grace the Duke of Northumberland has good reason to remember that Benjamin ("Ben") Tillett once said: "So Percy* don't approve of the dole,? don't he? Why his dole for doing nothing is £20,000 ($97,200) a week...
...Ben" Tillett, originally a bricklayer, progressed through shoemaking and sailoring to become General Secretary of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union, from its inception in 1887 until 1922. Latterly, as a Member of Parliament and lecturer, he has twice toured the Empire, and repeatedly visited the U. S. and Soviet Russia. The title of his favorite lecture, Christ and Labor! might be called the slogan wherewith hard-bitten "Ben" Tillett has sold himself to pious toilers' everywhere...