Word: ben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight jazz Jupiters-Paul Whiteman, Vincent Lopez, Ben Bernie, George Olson, Roger Wolff Kahn, Fred Rich, B. A. Rolfé, Ernie Golden, assembled in Manhattan last week, prepared to purify their business. They organized the National Association of Orchestra Leaders and named Julian T. Abeles arbiter of jazz at a salary of $25,000 a year. It will be his duty to stop the cut-throat competition among orchestras for famed musicians, phonograph contracts, bookings. Said Mr. Abeles: "There is not going to be any more poaching or tampering with saxophonists and other artists. In adopting this policy...
...Denver, and in the autumn of 1924 was marked "easy" by the politicians of both sides. The Republicans said they wanted all the votes for State Senators-the Democrats could have the rest. One of Judge Lindsey's minor assistants asked the precinct-tsar to "look after Ben out there," and paid him $25. The vote-counters counted the votes to make the answer come out right, and Judge Lindsey, among others, was elected. His opponent, one Royal R. Graham, died violently soon after, "and not of suicide," said his family. At Mrs. Graham's request the Supreme...
Washington correspondents, irritated by the tedious roaring of Senator Heflin of Alabama, have sometimes agreed to keep "his speeches "off the wire." He has been called a modern Ben Gunn,* a "stuffed white waistcoat" and even a "flat tire"; but his oratory is unpreventable. Last week his subject was an alleged $1,000,000 fund of the Knights of Columbus to carry on war propaganda against Mexico; his words might have been confined, unnoticed, to the Congressional Record, had not leading Democratic Senators risen to rebuke him. For three hours, Democrats talked. Republicans smiled, walked in and out, said nothing...
...called by rare Ben Jonson two centuries before the historic morning of Dec. 2, 1836, when the Philadelphia Public Ledger first referred to "The Almighty Dollar...
Captain Malick stood out at right guard. M. M. Green '28, veteran center, whose injured ankle has ben keeping him on the sidelines for the past several games, saw action in his regular berth when Barbee was switched to a guard position...