Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each morning thousands of Britons turn to the Telegraph's sporting page and scan attentively whatever appears above the enigmatic signature "B. B." Under that monogram writes jovial, astute Benjamin Bennison?and on the staff there have been constantly not a few journalists of nearly equal fame...
...this occasion His Holiness referred with special affection to Cardinal Szeredy, calling him the "Benjamin" of the Sacred College of Cardinals. That was because Cardinal Szeredy, 43, is the youngest member of the Sacred College...
...Benjamin was Jacob's youngest son (there were eleven others). But Benjamin was not his original name. Rachel, before she died in giving him birth, called him Benoni, which in Hebrew means "son of my sorrow." Widower Jacob renamed the baby Benjamin; "Child of my right hand...
...Benjamin Joy, to partnership in J. P. Morgan et Cie. of Paris, but not of J. P. Morgan & Co. of Manhattan (the parent organization). Immediately upon the announcement Mr. Joy, once a vice president of the Bankers Trust Co. of Manhattan, resigned his affiliation with Dillon, Read & Co., and sailed for Paris...
...Died. Benjamin Purnell, 66, "King of the House of David," "Seventh Messenger announcing the Millennium"; at Benton Harbor, Mich., of pulmonary tuberculosis. He taught, as many before him had taught and still conscientiously teach, that the Bible foretells the exact date at which the Millennium will begin. As the "Seventh Messenger," he also taught, he would never die; nor would 143,999 others who believed in his Messianic pretentions. About his dead body last week his disciples sat, waiting for his resurrection-in vain...