Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caillaux was suspected chiefly of attempting to negotiate long term credits backed by the gold reserve of the Bank of France with Messrs. Benjamin Strong and Montague Norman, governors respectively of the Federal Reserve Bank of Manhattan and the Bank of England. Both gentlemen remained quietly at Antibes, French Riviera, throughout the week, informed news gatherers that their health was rapidly improving in that salubrious climate. According to despatches they conferred daily by telephone with M. Cail-laux's agents...
...purvey their battered advocate to his cor ner. In the ninth round Kaplan knocked him down three times, and once more in the tenth. The referee, seeing that Garcia was al ready rising on one knee to go in search of further injury, stopped the bout. Lightweight. When Benjamin Leonard, nonpareil of lightweights, retired from the ring at the top of his hour, the successor to his crown proved ultimately to be Rocky Kansas, of Buffalo. This Kansas, whose real name was left behind in some alley of his white boyhood, is a scarred workman, 35 years...
While a ten-year-old boy played on a cornet, they elected a patron saint-Benjamin Franklin-even though the printers and the Saturday Evening Post already have his memory enshrined. Franklin played on the violin and guitar, composed a few conventional songs, and invented a long-obsolete musical instrument, the "armonica."* The musical chambermen found these facts decisive...
...submit," he said, "to having food thrown at my patrons." He left a large estate, including a new restaurant and apartment hotel on Park Ave. and a candy store on Fifth Ave., in the ownership of which there were associated with him "General" T. Coleman du Pont and "Colonel" Benjamin McAlpin, potent financiers...
...University Band at a recent meeting of the members. Ambrose Francis Keeley '27 of Fall River was chosen Director; Robert Thornion Smith '27, of Saco, Mc., was elected President; Randolph Piper '27, of Lexington, Manager; Charles Philip Engelhardt '28, Secretary; and Samuel Ganz '28, Treasurer and Louis Burton Benjamin '29, Librartan. At this same meeting, 27 men were elected to the Harvard University Band Club...