Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasures were Postmaster General Farley's last week. One morning he drove to his office on Pennsylvania Avenue near 12th Street. Instead of stopping as usual at the old Post Office Department Building, that blackened square of granite with cone-capped towers, one of the finest examples of Benjamin Harrison architecture in Washington, his car kept on across 12th Street and came to a stop before a new building with classic white marble columns. "General" Farley was moving into the new $8,500,000 home of his Department. A fair home it was, not so ostentatious...
...accounted for the most money: $2,021,567. Paintings brought $685,475; books and autographs. $644,689.50. Most famed collections dispersed were those of Thomas Fortune Ryan ($409,354), Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick ($330.617), Mrs. Whitelaw Reid ($116,015) (TIME, Dec. 4; Jan. 15; May 14). The late Mrs. Benjamin Stern's library and 18th Century French collection brought $243,142. The highest price for anything was paid at the Ryan auction by canny Lord Duveen of Millbank who bid $102,500 for a marble bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana, 15th Century Florentine. Highest literary...
...protest against any degree or honors for E. Hanfstaengl. He is an avowed enemy of our institutions. He is, besides, allied with the German Secret Service. Are you going to be public toadies and lick spittles forever? There is such a thing at a Boycott. Sincerely yours. Benjamin DeCasseres
...Benjamin DeCasseres, who addresses the CRIMSON in a letter on this page, protests against the CRIMSON suggestion of a degree for Ernest Hanfstaengl on the ground that this eminent Nazi is an "avowed enemy of our institutions...
Joseph and His Brothers is written in a language that is not strictly Biblical but gives, even in translation,† a Biblical effect. The book ends with the death of Rachel, just after the birth of Benjamin. Her last words: " 'Now all burdens have been taken from me, childbearing, life-bearing, and in it is the night. Jacob, my husband, forgive me that I was unfruitful and brought thee but two sons, but yet two, Jehosiph, the blessed, and the little one, the son of death. And ah, I am sore to go from them. And from thee...