Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...padding payrolls in the Street Cleaning Department, to the extent of perhaps $5,000,000 per annum, three public servants of New York City were last week sentenced to Sing Sing prison. A foreman, William J. Lougheed, had "peached" on William J. Oswald, his superintendent, and Benjamin J. Stoeber, Lougheed's assistant...
Died. Basil King (pen name of William Benjamin King), 69, onetime Canadian minister of the Episcopal Church, later famed as blind author of opti-mystical novels (The Inner Shrine, The Conquest of Fear, Street Called Straight); after a four-year illness; in Cambridge, Mass...
Reconciled. James Alexander ("Jim") Tully, onetime boisterous tramp, later a prizefighter, most recently a writer (Jarnegan, Circus Parade); and Mrs. Margaret Myers Tully. After a separation of five days they were reunited, due to the efforts of Cynic H. L. Mencken, Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, Novelist Rupert Hughes...
Died. Franklin Duane, 65, great grandson of Benjamin Franklin; of a heart attack; at his 45th reunion at Princeton University. Two days before, Robert Wilson Patterson Jr., of the class of 1913, was struck by lightning, at Princeton...
...Benjamin Winter, onetime Polish errand boy, continued his gigantic rearrangements of Manhattan real estate by purchasing from Arthur Curtiss James, famed yachtsman and the largest individual U. S. holder of railroad securities, an apartment house on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st street. The apartment house, known to phrase-coiners as the house of the golden doorknobs, was the first one in Manhattan to decoy rich tenants out of their private homes. Among its other magnificent appurtenances, it now contains Elihu Root, Murry Guggenheim, Ira Nelson Morris, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn...