Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken over one of the two or three largest and best-equipped aircraft factories in the world, and that subsequent additions and improvements made by this company at a cost of over $300,000 have considerably improved its position in this respect. 3) That the "onetime Army flier (Benjamin Frederick Castle) who went into banking was, in fact, the former Chief of the Control Board of the U. S. Army Air Service, Personal Representative of the Chief of the U. S. Army Air Service on the Liquidation Committee in France, Air Attache to the U. S. Embassy at Paris...
...lineups of the four teams were as follows: Team A--R. H. O'Connell '30 and J. G. Douglas, Jr. '30, ends; J. E. Barrett '30 and F. S. Davis '30, tackles; W. D. Ticknor, Jr. '31 and J. N. Trainer '31, guards; Benjamin Ticknor '31, center; E. T. Putnam, Jr. '30, quarterback; S. L. Batchelder '31, A. W. Huguley, Jr. '31 and W. R. Harper '30, backs...
...Industry. A queer phenomenon is that Cleveland, vast industrial community, has only one airplane factory-Great Lakes Aircraft Corp. In existence less than a year, it occupies the Glenn L. Martin Co. bomber plant, which that concern abandoned for new facilities at Baltimore. Great Lakes Aircraft president is Benjamin Frederick Castle, 45, onetime Army flyer who went into banking. His chief designer is Holden Chester Richardson, 50, onetime Navy aircraft engineer. They are producing airworthy sport, training, amphibian and cabin planes in small numbers...
Committeeman Liggett failed to elect his Republican candidate Benjamin Loring Young to the Senate last November. Quick to retort was Frank J. Donahue, chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee: "Since the direct election of U. S. senators the Senate has become the liberal and progressive branch of the national government. . . . Does Mr. Liggett prefer the Platts, Quays, Penroses and Aldriches of his party to the Borahs, Johnsons, Norrises and Kenyons?" Mr. Donahue succeeded in electing his Democratic candidate, David Ignatius Walsh, to the Senate last November...
Married. Marion Nixon, cinemactress, divorced wife of Prizefighter Joe Benjamin; to Edward Hillman Jr., Chicago heir, onetime husband of Actress Dorothy Martin; in Chicago...