Word: benham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board dive, repeating his low-board performance, and was the only Harvard man to place in Saturday's events. Al Patnik of Ohio State won the three-meter test with 161.32 points, an incredibly high total, and was more than 32 points ahead of his teammate Earl Clark. Hal Benham, of Michigan was third...
...Evansville, Ind., Mrs. John Benham suspected that her dog Jerry had eaten up two $5 bills. By feeding Jerry liberal amounts of castor oil she retrieved the bills in fragments, patched them together, forwarded them to the U. S. Treasury at Washington for redemption...
Master of the strongbox is Albert William Benham. For 20 years Citizen Benham worked for National Sewing Machine Co., lived in a modest home. He is a fat, jolly, robust man now going on 46. Recently he mortgaged his home and that of a friend for $4,000. Nobody paid much attention. A lot of people are mortgaging things these days. Then suddenly Citizen Benham zoomed to fame. From a few friends Mr. Benham solicited funds to be invested. Soon he was inviting all Belvidere and nearby cities to give him money. His terms: profits of from...
...these reports Mr. Benham answers that his method is simply finding buyers and sellers, making quick turnovers. He tells, for example, how he found a man who had to sell a car in a hurry for $400, then found a man who wanted to buy one for $700. Another story is that Mr. Benham locates companies about to go bankrupt, arranges to sell their inventories to going concerns...
Belvidere bankers, the local chambers of commerce and the Chicago Association of Commerce all have doubted this explanation. But up to last week they had failed to find the actual means by which Black Hawk Finance finances itself. "Let them investigate," shouted florid Financier Benham to visitors. "I have nothing to conceal...