Word: ben
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With that, the Communist machinery swung into action. The Committee for Democratic Rights, which has among its sponsors Communist Ben Gold, leader of the C.I.O. fur workers, and New York's Communist Councilman Benjamin J. Davis Jr., announced a march on Washington. It was joined by the National Non-Partisan Delegation to Washington, an outfit which had planned a demonstration to demand anti-lynching legislation...
...village home she chose for four-year-old Orde Jonathan Ben-Zion (Son of Zion) Wingate was at Ein Harod...
...there had been any real question about which horse was king of Calumet, the question was answered. There had never been any doubt in the mind of wise old Ben Jones. Says he: "Unless he has a bad break, I believe you may see the greatest horse of all time before Citation is through...
...mechanic, nor Toledo's playboyish Frank ("Muscles") Stranahan was staying abreast of par. But they stayed even with each other, with 795 on the first round. Then Stowe, completely unstarched, bowed to Stranahan 5-&-4. ¶ | At St. Louis, in the $30,000 Professional Golfers Association championship, cool Ben Hogan systematically went about chopping Mike Turnesa to pieces in the final. Hogan won 7-&-6, collected first prize ($3,500) and left for Fort Worth with a motorcycle escort sendoff. The way he felt about the P.G.A.: "You have to finish first or second to make it worth...
Died. Dame** May Whitty, 82, peppery, untiring stage-&-screen actress, wife of onetime Matinee Idol Ben Webster, mother of Shakespearean Actress-Director Margaret Webster; in Hollywood. She made her name in England in the '80s with Richard Mansfield, in the U.S. with the Sir Henry Irving-Ellen Terry company in 1895. In later years she turned to the cinema, made an immediate hit in Hollywood's Night Must Fall, another in Britain's The Lady Vanishes...