Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brilliant is the spotlight which plays about the comings and goings, the doings and infrequent sayings of Gov. Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. All the world knows when he speeds to Europe. All the world watches for his meeting with the Grand Viziers of international finance...
...Washington, a man named Roy A. Young presides day by day over the Federal Reserve Board, central authority of the twelve regional banks. In Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, sit Governors with as much authority as clothes the Governor of New York's bank. But when Benjamin Strong, lean, nervous, enters the doors of the Bank of England, or when Benjamin Strong, ill, receives the foreign chiefs in Manhattan, no Wall Streeter thinks of the quiet, unostentatious figure in the Treasury building's spacious offices. And certainly no Streeter thinks of such an untraveled, provincial person as a banker...
Postmistress Hattie Giddings of Doles, Ga., said that before and after Benjamin Jefferson Davis, Negro Republican, got her her post, she was requested to give money...
...graduate (1868). He is kin of the late famed Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. His father, Winslow S. Pierce, was a Comptroller of California. His law partners included the late Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks and the late U. S. Senator David Turpie of Indiana. Among his neighbors was Benjamin Harrison. Among his friends were Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson...
...Retired. Benjamin Wisner Bacon, 68, Buckingham professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School since...