Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carpenter A.M. '14, Instructor in English, Benjamin Kropp '23, Instructor in Zoology and tutor in the Division of Biology, and A. B. Brown '25, Instructor in Mathematics, are the three members of the teaching staff who are enabled to travel in Europe during the year 1929-30. S. S. Stratton A.M. '28. Instructor in Economics and Tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics, will spend the summer of 1929 abroad...
...year county job, against incredible odds, and held it for eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when he was 32, although Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candidate for President, lived in Indianapolis. With one hand Taggart built up a large hotel enterprise, acquired French Lick Springs. With the other hand he ran politics. He managed the campaign of Alton Brooks Parker for President in 1904. In 1912 he started the swing to Wilson in the Baltimore convention...
...Died. Benjamin Arrowsmith Hegeman, 68, Manhattan railroad magnate, manufacturer (railway appliances, varnish), onetime president of the American Railway Association; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Gustavus Hill Robinson '05, a professor in the Boston University Law School, will receive the Judah Philip Benjamin Research Fellowship while James Jacques Robinson, Professor of Law at the University of Indiana will be given the Brandeis Fellowship. The Sidney Thomas Fairchild Fellowship in the Law of Railroads and Other Public Utilities will be held during the coming year by Charles Lucien Baker Lowndes, a law professor at Georgetown University...
...said he, "I don't care much for railroads." Back to New York State he went. He had decided that Albany had no hotel worthy of the State capital. He built the Ten Eyck. Later, his second hotel - the Onondaga, Syracuse - was built. Then came the Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, the Bancroft in Worcester, Mass., the President in Kansas City, the Prince Edward in Windsor, Canada, the Roosevelt in Manhattan and many another...