Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aroused by the refusal of the local authorities to issue any definite information in regard to Benjamin Gitlow, Worker's (Communist) Party candidate for vice-president, who has not been heard from for over a week, the officers of the Harvard Thomas-for-President Club last night sent the following telegram...
...doctrines seditions and to brand as traitors all leaders of new thought. Among institutions which existed for many years were chattel slavery, feudalism, and Tsarist regime in Russia, among the advocates of new political systems have been Jesus Christ, Washington and Lincoln. His fellow citizens demand to know how Benjamin Gitlow has merited jail, and why he has been held incommunicando...
...Junior League of the American Civil Liberties Union accuses you of being disloyal to the ideals and principles upon which our nation was founded. We have sufficient confidence in American institutions to believe that they can stand the test of open criticism. We demand that our fellow-citizen Benjamin Gitlow be protected in the proper exercise of his legitimate rights of free speech and assemblage, and we further demand that the reason for his arrest be made known at once...
...There are 12 banks in the system. Most important, for psychological reasons, is the New York unit. But its governor, Benjamin Strong, was neither speaker nor delegate in Philadelphia. He lay seriously ill in a Manhattan hospital after an operation for an intestinal ulcer...
REPUBLICANS Votes Add i t i o n s t o H o o v e r i s m i n c l u d e d : Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Rea¬ son: (see "Testimonial"). Benjamin F. Yoakum, Manhattan finan¬ cier, oldtime Democrat, student of the f a r m p r o b l e m . President Harry Augustus Garfield of Williams College, since Wilson days a Democrat. Reasons: Prohibition, farm re¬ l i e f , f o r e i g n r e l a t i o n s . 1,000 Methodist...