Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just before he sailed for Europe on the Leviathan one day last week, Otto Hermann Kahn, patron of Art, briefly announced the designation of Benjamin Wistar Morris and Joseph Urban as the two architects who will plan the new Metropolitan Opera House. He indicated that he hoped the performances of the architects would be as void of modernism as opera itself...
...Authors Oliver Wendell Holmes, Eugene Sue, Victorien Sardou, Tobias Smollett, Dr. David Ramsay, were first doctors ; and Dr. Benjamin Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence...
...Hosiery, Milwaukee,* told a trouble last week: "Suddenly, somewhere, some woman conceived the idea of black shoes and champagne colored stockings. The idea spread Variations of style followed quickly. Where 480 styles of stockings were carried in 1920, the company now has to carry 6006." Remington Rand Inc. Chairman Benjamin La Fon Winchell of Remington Typewriter explained the pending merger of his company with Rand-Kardex (visible indexes), Baker-Vawter (filing cabinets) and Dalton Adding Machine: "Throughout the world these concerns are duplicating their selling efforts [through 4,500 field representatives] to an extent which insures good rewards for intelligent...
...Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey of Denver's famed juvenile court has been a busy man since he came out flatfootedly for trial or "companionate" marriage, plus birth control (TIME, Jan. ,24). He has had to explain himself over and over again to businessmen, ministers, mothers, youngsters. Not having read what he wrote, many people think he advocated "free love...
...home in company with Arthur Clement on Holyoke Street, was overtaken by a crowded patrol wagon on the way to the station. Although neither Shaw nor Clement offered any resistance, they were both thrown into the wagon, Shaw after receiving a blow on, the head that necessitated several stitches, Benjamin Dorman '29, half a block down the street received the same treatment, and did not recover complete consciousness for several hours...