Word: benjamin
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Money came in fast. Felix Warburg gave $400,000, Herbert Lehman, Mrs. S. W. Straus, Mortimer Schiff gave $50,000 each; Louis Marshall, William Fox, Benjamin Winter made big contributions, and a disabled veteran sent $28 (government allowance for war wounds). Advertisers, art-goods makers, bag-makers, bankers, butter, egg, and dairy firms; chain stores, crockery companies, cloak and suit houses; the dental, the funeral, the grocery, the hosiery, the laundry, millinery, musical and neckwear trades; opticians, pawnbrokers, petticoat cutters, physicians, rubber-goods makers, rabbis, underwear and umbrella manufacturers - all were appraised for definite amounts, all came near to filling...
...Died. Benjamin Barker Odell, 72, Governor of New York during two consecutive terms (1901-5); at Manhattan, of cancer of the stomach...
...products of the Harvard Press which have been picked for exhibition are "The Essays of Montaigne," translated by George B. Ives '76, "A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions," edited by Hyder E. Rollins, "The Passports Printed by Benjamin Franklin at his Passy Press." "Shakspere's Debt to Montaigne," by George Coffin Taylor '99, and "Bruce Rogers: Designer of Books" by Frederique Warde...
...Guminberg to Platini," by G. P. Winship '93, "Prints and Books: Informal Papers," by W. M. Iryins '01, "Harvard University Hymn Book," "What Evolution Is," by G. H. Parker '87, "Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth," by Cowpers Read '03, and "The Passports Printed by Benjamin Franklin at his Passy Press," by R. G. Adams and T. S. Livingston...
Speaking of the coming International Congress of Philosophy (TIME, April 5, p. 22) you say, "The formal host of the Congress is the American Philosophical Society." You have made a pardonable confusion between the American Philosophical Society and the American Philosophical Association. The former was founded by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1744. In that age, a "philosophical" society was one devoted to all the special sciences, including the mathematical, the physical and the biological. The Society founded by Franklin still covers this wide field, and still meets in Philadelphia. The American Philosophical Association, on the other hand...