Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Post Office Department (Harry S. New of Indiana, Postmaster General) made a gesture in answer to the charge that, by laxity, it was aiding the Whispering Campaign. At Baltimore, Postmaster Benjamin F. Woelper seized 100 anti-Smith postcards which Postmaster General New later pronounced the work of "a depraved and degenerate mind...
Bankrupt. Arthur Benjamin Reeve, novelist, creator of "Craig Kennedy, the Scientific Detective." Author Reeve's affidavit, filed in Manhattan, stated that he owes nearly...
...Benjamin Talbott Brooks said that he could make petroleum taste like soap and peaches, did not foresee that petroleum would be diverted from its main purpose of driving automobiles...
Married. Philip Grandin Strong, son of Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; to Emma Thompson Smith, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Edward Livingston Smith of New York and Ballston Spa; at Ballston...
...pinnacle of pretension which permits them to order portraits, would prefer to have themselves painted by a portrayer of dukes or princes. Hence U. S. portraitists, able though they may be, are not so avidly patronized that their prices approach those of the most famed Europeans. George Benjamin Luks, Eugene Edward Speicher, Wayman Adams, and Leopold Seyffert probably have all the portrait work they want to do, but they do not get $10,000 apiece for their pictures...