Word: benjamin
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Appointed. George Leslie Harrison of Manhattan; to be Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, succeeding the late Benjamin Strong. Mr. Harrison is an alumnus of Yale (1910) and of Harvard Law School. In 1913 he was legal secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1914 he was appointed assistant general counsel of the Federal Reserve Board. During the War he served as Captain with the Red Cross. Since 1920 he has been Deputy Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Said John Pierpont Morgan: "The appointment of Mr. Harrison should meet...
...censorship and the first attempt to set up a commercial printing shop: "Publick Occurrances both Foreign and Domestick," appeared on September 26, 1690, and was immediately forbidden from the Colonies. The Governor and council gave expression to "high resentment and disallowance" to this paper printed by Richard Pierce for Benjamin Harris of Boston, and forbade anyone "for the future to set forth anything in print without license first obtained...
...Benjamin Waterhouse, Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Physic...
Creek) as Senator from Wyoming. This was an error. Wyoming Democrats declared that it was a "glaring" error and an "egregious" error. Final returns showed that Senator John Benjamin Kendrick, Democrat, cattleman, 32° Mason, of Sheridan, Wyoming, had been reelected by 8,700 votes which, in Wyoming, is a comfortable margin. It will be Senator Kendrick's third successive term. Aged 71, Senator Kendrick is a member of the committees on Agriculture and Forestry, Appropriations, Indian Affairs, Irrigation and Reclamation, Public Lands and Surveys...
...number of years open to discussion. It has been contested that the painting was drawn by an English artist, brought to this country by Franklin himself, and given to his brother. Others believe that it was painted at Newport, R. J., when Franklin was visiting his brother there, when Benjamin was about 30 years of age. It is now generally established, however, that the picture was executed by Robert Feke, the best of the pre-Copley artists in America, in Philadelphia in 1746, when Franklin was 40 years of age. It shows Franklin at about the time of his retirement...