Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benjamin Wistar Morris III, famed architect of the Cunard Building (Manhattan) was appointed a member of the Fine Arts Commission by President Coolidge...
...mulberry trees per annum for seven years. Just before .the Revolution a great fever for growing silk swept the colonies. In 1771 President Stiles of Yale and Mrs. Stiles raised 3,000 silkworms and sent their produce to a friend in London; where, with more strands bought of Benjamin Franklin, who kept worms in Philadelphia, 10¼ yards of cloth were woven for the friend's wife's dress. In 1791 a Mr. Aspinwall persuaded the New York Assembly to promise a bounty of $3 for every 100 mulberry trees reaching the age of three years in good...
...error: more space was given to that first of U. S. popular economists, Benjamin Franklin...
Divorced. Marthena H. Williams, granddaughter of the late President Benjamin Harrison; from one Henry A. Williams; in Omaha...
Coach Wachter, in discussing the strength of his team, mentioned the lack of available material in the class of 1929. The loss of S. C. Burns and Benjamin Thackenbury because of ineligibility has been a blow...