Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate trade. "No Vote-No Trade," "Recrimination for Discrimination," cried campus signs. This phase of the affair was reminiscent of the origin of it all. Last year the Princeton undergraduates were not allowed to vote in a mayoral primary election. Reason alleged: one of the candidates was Benjamin Franklin ("Bacon") Bunn, keeper of the co-operative store on the University campus. Another candidate, a onetime faculty member named Van Nest, believed that the students would pour out to vote for popular Storekeeper Bunn sooner than for an obscure pedagog...
Died. Terrance Waldman, 4, & Benjamin Waldman, 1, sons of Milton S. Waldman, assistant editor of the London Mercury, grandsons & heirs of the late copper tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim who perished on the Titanic; in a 14-story fall from a penthouse roof; in Manhattan. Mrs. Waldman (Barbara Hazel Guggenheim) held the younger son on her lap when a tussle caused the fall...
Died. Lew Wallace, 70, Indianapolis barrister, nephew of the late General Lew Wallace, Hoosier author of Ben Hur; from a heart attack; in Indianapolis. Barrister Wallace's father was a law partner of President Benjamin Harrison. Ovid Butler, one of Barrister Wallace's grandfathers, founded Indiana's Butler University; Grandfather David Wallace was once Indiana's Governor...
Missing-between San Diego, Calif., and Phoenix, Ariz.-one Nominee for Vice President of the U. S. His name was Benjamin Gitlow. He was a Communist-six feet high, a 200-pounder with black hair, swart skin, bright black eyes, long fingers, very large feet, round shoulders. His friends suspected a Klannish plot, or strong-arm work by the American Legion, which had warned him not to visit Phoenix. William O'Brien, candidate of the Workers' (Communist) Party for Governor of Arizona, began searching small-town jails through the Southwest. Suspicion pointed to El Paso, in the western...
...Sheffer, assistant professor of philosophy; O. M. W. Sprague, professor of banking and finance; F. W. Taussig, professor of economics; H. H,. Thirlby, assistant professor of industrial management; Eugene Wambaugh, Langdell professor or law; emeritus; Joseph T. Wearn, assistant professor of medicine; E. B. Wilson, professor of vital statistics; Benjamin F. Wright, assistant professor of government; Hans Zinsser, professor of bacteriology.ECONOMICS PROFESSOR WHO SUPPORTS GOVERNOR SMITH PROFESSOR F. W. TAUSSIG...