Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Selected as the place to sign was the Clock Hall, on the Quai d'Orsay. Implements selected were the Havre pen, an inkwell once used by Minister to France Benjamin Franklin and French Foreign Minister Comte de Vergennes and a large single sheet of paper...
TIME must continue to defer to the longstanding wish of Benjamin F. Boswell that he, his sanctum and his bookish hobbies shall not be made the subject of publicity...
...Smith-Peek conference and the Lowden surmise having passed into Democratic annals, Chairman Raskob pondered the name of B. F. Yoakum. A long letter bearing that signature had followed Mr. Peek into Democratic headquarters. Benjamin F. Yoakum is a Democrat, a retired railroad executive* who developed the southwest's farming much as the late James J. Hill developed the northwest's. In his Manhattan office, he has been spending recent years offering sane and respected solutions of economic problems. Six years ago he suggested a plan of funding World War debts to the U. S., which in broad...
...divorce clients and especially those U.S. lawyers who act in Paris as inter-mediaires between would-be-divorcees and the French avocats who alone may argue cases before the Paris Bar. Roundly naming names, Judge Wattine mentioned Dudley Field Malone, onetime Collector of the Port of New York, Benjamin H. Conner, President of the American Chamber of Commerce at Paris, and a half dozen more expatriate U. S. lawyers as especial objects of his wrath. As a first and most vital precaution Registrar Chipot of the Civil Court was placed on trial, last week, before all the 119 Magistrates entitled...
...every Chicagoan knows, Banker Traylor sprang from a strain of Kentucky mountaineers and matured in a two-fisted town in Texas. Psychologists, pondering heredity and environment, are not surprised to find him, at 50, ready and able to oppose Benjamin Strong, scion of a long line of publicists and bankers. Fighting is in his blood. No Kentuckian was surprised, last week, when Gov. Flem D. Sampson made "Mel" Traylor a Colonel of the National Guard, named him an aide-de-camp on his personal staff. Chicago claims Banker Traylor, but the South hasn't given him up. After...