Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BALZAC?Rene Benjamin?Knopf ($5). Fiction could be, has been defined as imaginary biography. Biography in its latest form could be defined as imaginary fiction. Into this definition fits the work of Andre Maurois, of his followers like Author Benjamin. They believe in making truth seem real by giving it the guise of fiction. Holding to an authentic outline, their method is to present what did happen as what might have happened, as part of the story...
...Author Benjamin, describing prodigious doings, allows himself to become infected with the superb extravagance of his subject. He rhapsodizes too readily, too insistently points the salient qualities, too rarely sees the subtleties fused in the character of Honore de Balzac. Mediocre translation has not improved the book which is, all in all, a cage too small for its canary...
Chiefs of the national banks of England, France and Germany debarked at Manhattan last week for their regular summer conference and discussion of world economics with their good friend, Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. All had been in the U. S. before, but severally. All had met before, but in Europe, where heretofore Governor Strong has spent his summers visiting with them. These comrades in finance, these truly international bankers, were...
...Benjamin Strong, Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, is farther from the U. S. Government than his three banker visitors are from their governments. Their banks are the fiscal agents for England, France and Germany. In the U. S. the Treasury Department is the Government's money agent. In many cases and for many reasons it delegates its authority as agent to Federal Reserve banks, but those Federal Reserve banks are secondary, as it were, sub-agents of the Government. None the less Governor Strong as head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank wields financial authority...
Reported Engaged. Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Ambassador to Spain, widower of famed Lillian Russell; to Mrs. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso Ingram, widow of Enrico Caruso (famed tenor), onetime wife of Captain G. A. Ingram...