Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eager always to jeer at new things of which they know nothing, stupid persons and headline writers have had a merry time over "companionate marriage.* In the meantime, famed Benjamin Barr Lindsey, of Denver, onetime judge of the Juvenile Court, continues to preach, solemnly and with efficacy, his system of practical ethics, hoping eventually to obtain legislation that will make it practicable. He so preached last week in St. Louis, where an audience at the Coliseum heard him debate against jovial Lawrence McDaniel, a onetime Circuit Attorney...
...Benjamin Newton Duke, 73, retired tobaccoman, has not been out of his house at No. 1076 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, in a year. This fact became known last week at the courtroom in Somerville, N. J., where 107 Texans were squabbling for shares of $2,000,000 in the will of the late James Biddle Duke, brother of Benjamin. Thirty of the Duke millions were left to endow Duke University at Durham, N. C. (TIME...
...manager of the firm. He succeeds Harry Hough, who resigned last week, president since last September, when chairman and president Bertram G. Work died in Europe (TIME, Oct. 10). The chairman of the company, since the death of Bertram G. Work, has been David M. Goodrich, son of Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, for whom the company was named...
Four new champions were crowned while others retained their championships. The new title holders are J. T. Mooney '31, Benjamin Eisner 2L, C. A. Floro 2L, and O. T. Roberg 1M. Three matches were of especial interest. In the 145 pound class G. N. Burns '29 succeeded in holding his title, after battling through to a semi final and final bout. At the outset of his first bout with Perry Baird 4M he was taken by surprise and during the first round was largely at the mercy of his opponent. In the last two rounds, however, his greater stamina saved...
...pound class--Benjamin Eisner 2L defeated E. S. Dennis '28 by knockout...