Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Workers' (Communist): William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow...
...Ohio State University the young Benjamin Lamme studied electricity but slightly. He was a prodigy in mathematics - which explains his later power to perfect the most intricate inventions in his mind, without pencil or paper. Differential calculus and high-range multiplication were his diversions. Upon graduation, in 1888, he entered the employ of the Westinghouse Co. He began inventing then, and stopped only at his death, after having given the world 150 useful devices...
Remarkable as is Benjamin G. Lamme's record of 150 U. S. electrical patents, Dr. Elihu Thomson...
...film version of Peter Pan to show Sir James M. Barrie; Jeanne Eagels, famed actress; Mrs. Margaret Talmadge, mother of the three famed Talmadge sisters ; John Emerson, President of the Actors' Equity Association, and his wife, Anita Loos, the director and scenario writer; E. E. Fernandi, "Rockefeller of Peru"; Benjamin Winchell, Remington Typewriter President ; Edna Ferber, novelist...
...meeting Saturday of the University Band, the following officers for the coming year were elected: Walter Harrington Kilham Jr. '25 of Boston, president; Richard Newton Benjamin '25 of New York City, business manager: Alan Salter Hays '24 of Buffalo, New York, secretary-treasurer; and Richard Loud '27 of Belmont, librarian. Ambrose Francis Keeley '27 of Fall River was appointed director to succeed Addison Simmous...