Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House inquiry into Army aircraft procurement methods which resulted in a demand for the ouster of Air Corps Chief Benjamin D. ("Benny"') Foulois...
...Depression. Among the other 14 are the hotels operated by the Hotel Sherman Co. (the quiet Ambassador East, the gay Ambassador West, the sporty Sherman, the Fort Dearborn where railroad men like to stay), and the roomy, rambling Hotel Drake which has been operated since 1932 by its architect, Benjamin H. Marshall. Fortnight ago the president of Hotel Sherman Co., Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield, Chicago's best-known hotelkeeper, followed his four hotels into receivership, filed a personal petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court. Last week Architect-Manager Marshall of the Drake did likewise. Hotelman Byfield still had his beauteous...
...chief to head a small unit of his own. Of the 35 pictures which RKO released in the last half of 1933. only four (Little Women, Flying Down to Rio, Wild Cargo, Morning Glory) were money-making hits. In charge of RKO's 50 forthcoming pictures will be president Benjamin Bertram ("Bright Boy") Kahane. Most important on the production schedule for 1934-35: three Katharine Hepburn pictures (Joan of Arc, the Forsyte Saga, The Little Minister') ; Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii; Irene Dunne and John Boles in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence; Brian Aherne...
Twenty-five years ago the U. S. Army Air Corps consisted of one plane and one pilot. He was a keen-eyed, pipe-smoking bantam named Lieut. Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois. Up from the ranks of infantry, he joined the Signal Corps in 1908, learned to fly balloons, went to Fort Myer, Va. where Orville Wright was trying to sell the Army its first airplane. He laid out the test course-the amazing distance of ten miles-and was chosen official passenger by Orville Wright for two reasons. First, he weighed only 126 Ib. Second, as Orville Wright...
Martin entered from Moses Brown School, Providence, R. I., and will graduate summa cum laude in philosophy. He has hold the Price Greenleaf Scholarship, Benjamin D. Greene Scholarship, Borden Scholarship, and Hollis Scholarship