Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which has recently been presented to the Baker Library of the Business School dates from the very early days when fire fighting, instead of being a purely personal matter, began to be conducted by an organized group. The first volunteer fire company was started in Philadelphia about 1740 by Benjamin Franklin and the system soon spread to the rest of the colonies. Before the introduction of these companies every respectable house holder kept a pair of leathern buckets in his room. When a fire occurred the townspeople pulled out the fire engine, a crude, hand-worked pump which they kept...
...office of Pegasus will be filled by Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene '30, of New York City, while James Cambell Weir '30, of Euclid, Ohio will be business manager. Benjamin Patterson Bole, Jr. '30, of Cleveland, Ohio was elected treasurer of the board and John Paul Faude '31, of Cambridge, was reelected circulation manager...
...Kahn of the Metropolitan directors was thwarted in his choice of site, whereas in Chicago, President Samuel Insull let nothing interfere. In consequence when the Chicago opera ended its home season last week, it ended also its residence in the Auditorium which 40 years ago was dedicated by President Benjamin Harrison and Vice President Levi P. Morton, with incidental music by Adelina Patti. Romeo et Juliet had been the first opera, with Patti as Juliet, and Romeo was the valedictory last week, with Edith Mason for heroine. Next season will open a proud 42-story building on Wacker Drive...
Married. Meraud Guinness, 24, British- American artist, onetime contributor to Vogue, daughter of Benjamin S. Guinness (Dublin brewing, Manhattan banking); to Alvara Guevara, 35, Chilean artist. "We are going to live for art," said...
...raised to unexpected glory when it inherited the famed H. O. Havemeyer collection which includes, besides masterpieces of the earlier schools, the very finest specimens of French impressionism. This single gift, valued at many millions, is the greatest contribution the Metropolitan ever received, with the possible exception of the Benjamin Altman donation...