Word: benedicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some years ago the Chicago Tribune made unkind remarks about Henry Ford, and the supermechanic sued the Tribune for libel. In the course of Mr. Ford's testimony at the trial Tribune lawyers found that he did not differentiate between Arnold Bennett and Benedict Arnold. But Mr. Ford won the suit and at his own request took six cents in damages...
...whose colossal knowledge, whose range of reading, deep fund of historical research are hidden from the world because he has no love of display. I venture to say that if Mr. Ford was placed on the witness stand and required under oath to give a fifty-word biography of Benedict Arnold he would remain mute. Rather than appear learned or highbrow he would affect ignorance. It is the nature...
...BENEDICT ARNOLD. An intrepid and an able soldier. (" Perhaps it was vanity that made him so, but war can put up with a lot of vanity of that description.") Likewise he was an intrepid and an able spender. His merit unrewarded, his vanity injured, his purse empty, he deliberately turned traitor...
Admiral Benson was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in 1919 and has also been decorated by France, England, and Japan. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor from France and the Order of St. Gregory the Great from Pope Benedict...
...commercial airship line between Chicago and New York, often discussed, took definite shape last week. A corporation is to be formed in which Marshall Field, William Wrigley, Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Benedict Crowell, former Assistant Secretary of War, and Owen D. Young, Vice-President of the General Electric Company, will be members...