Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within the hall it was 4:00 p.m. Brilliant electric lights gave the effect of daylight; the Continental Congress assembled?Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Henry Lee, et al. Last to stride in among the famed patriots was John Hancock. In stentorian tones he called for order. "In accordance with Colonial custom" the proceedings were carried out and the Declaration of Independence was signed again...
...Washington, a notable financial assemblage convened: S. Parker Gilbert, Agent General of German reparations; Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England; Andrew W. Mellon; D. R. Crissinger, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board; Benjamin . Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Their meeting had no name, no official standing. Deeply, vaguely observers pondered possible but undefined international developments...
Three events focused the attention of thoughtful Americans last week upon the aged "Tiger" of France, M. Georges Eugène Benjamin Adrien Clémenceau, now in his 84th year...
...your further information, the new site for the Temple Emanu-El at the northeast corner of Fifth Ave. and 65th St. was sold, not by Vincent Astor as you reported, but by Benjamin Winter, who bought the famous Astor residence last spring. He also is the present owner of the historic W. K. Vanderbilt mansion at 52nd St. and Fifth Ave., described in your same issue...
...Economic Policy Committee of the American Bankers' Association; who is or has been chairman, president or director of a railway, a life insurance company, any number of charitable and welfare associations, a college, an historical society, an art association, a fuel administration and memorials ranging from Benjamin Harrison to James Whitcomb Riley. He is besides a Democrat, and once ran for Congress-in 1896 on the Gold Democratic ticket. Last week he announced...