Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heading a contested South Carolina delegation was National Committeeman Joseph W. ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert, whose illkempt figure (he prefers no cravat, shaves seldom) is a recurrent feature at G. O. P. Conventions. From Georgia and Mississippi, respectively, came the two Negro National Committeemen, Benjamin Jefferson Davis and Perry W. Howard...
...grandfather, Benjamin Douglass, founded R. G. Dun & Co., business statisticians, credit raters. *His old friends of Hutchison, Kan., know him as a ready host and help when needed. Their children attend each other's weddings; the boys get jobs in Chrysler's factories-at Detroit, Dayton, Ohio, Newcastle, Ind. Mr. Chrysler has paid for an addition to the Kansas Wesleyan University at Salina, Kan. In one Kansas city he built five churches...
...socially-equal fellow townsmen, Van Wagenen Ailing, became hard up. Lake Forest taxes were so high that Mr. Ailing felt the need of subdividing his estate for homesites. Mr. Alling's across-the-road neighbor, one Benjamin Franklin Affleck, heard of this and telegraphed: "Such concentration of housing and population is entirely contrary to the general scheme of things in that part of Lake Forest. . . . We left Winnetka [modest Chicago suburb regarded by some as a stepping-stone to Lake Forest, by others as a model community] because of numerous small houses built in our neighborhood...
...Presidency but that it enrolls Frank Orren Lowden, William Edgar Borah, Robert Marion La Follette. "And here is a scoop. . . . Harry F. Sinclair ... is a Phi Gamma Delta brother of President Coolidge. Will Hays is a former National President of Phi Delta Theta, which gave us President Benjamin Harrison...
William Berryman Scott, 70, great-great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was asked by Princeton University to continue teaching geology for two more years, even though he has already reached the official retiring age for Princeton professors. Professor Scott has been on the Princeton faculty for 45 years, has traveled some 250,000 miles on diggers' expeditions, is almost as well-known scientifically as his Princeton classmate, Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History...