Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These plans, however, are not final. Mr. Urban has been variously designated "architect," "associate architect," "assistant architect." His name and work are coupled with Architect Benjamin Wistar Morris. Mr. Morris' plans are likely to differ from Mr. Urban's, since they were drawn up separately, are based on a different school of architecture, are said to preserve the old traditions of opera houses, including the old number of boxes in the horseshoe...
...chairman of the directorate, the directors picked Daniel M. Goodrich, son of Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, founder of the corporation. A new vice president is James D. Tew, son of Dr. Goodrich's early associate when B. F. Goodrich Co. was called Goodrich & Tew. The company makes a greater variety of products from rubber than does any other concern...
...Author is a graduate of the University of North Carolina. Travels in Europe, delvings into European information mines produced the news which made possible the scornful iconography of his previous much-heralded work on Benjamin Franklin. From the same sources, he has gathered now for the life of a less intimate hero, the same casual, rapid style, a possibly less accurate body of research, but an even more engaging history...
...burning papers were intimate confessions of some 5,000 women who had come before the little man, whose name was Benjamin Barr Lindsey, during the 27 years that he was judge of Denver's famed Juvenile Court. After Judge Lindsey was ousted (TIME, July 11), he was accused by Philip S. Van Cise, onetime Denver district attorney, of removing court records. Gathering the ashes of his conflagration and crushing them into an envelope, Judge Lindsey cried out: "I'll send them to Van Cise-that's my answer to his lying charges...
Last week Benjamin F. Feiner Jr. (of Feiner & Skutch, Manhattan) fixed the Curb's record for this year by paying...