Word: benjamin
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...House. Few members understood the measure's technicalities and fewer still cared to. Republicans made more of its past than its future. Illinois' Britten charged that it was written by "the scarlet fever boys in the little red house in Georgetown"-a dig at Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen, New Deal legalites who keep bachelor hall at $50 each per month in an old brick house in Washington's suburb. The whole country, said this hard-bitten Congressman, was whispering about these "radicals." Shouted Ohio's Truax: "They're not radical enough!" Stolid Representative...
Acquitted. Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, Economics Professor Benjamin Mark Squires, and 15 others; in Chicago after a four months' trial on charges of racketeering in the laundry, dyeing & cleaning, carbonated beverage, and linen supply industries (TIME, Aug. 7). Said Dr. Squires: "They tried to blacken my reputation but they couldn't do it." Said the prosecuting attorney: "The trial has served its main purpose. Since it started, there has been no bombing, acid throwing, window smashing or slugging." Said the jurymen, locked up since Jan. 19: "Hurray...
There are 11 Sophomore nominees: Anthony A. Bliss, Thornton Brown, Braman Gibbs, Benjamin H. Hallowell, Winchester D. Hardwick, Shaun Kelley, Frederick R. Moseley, Jr., Robert S. Play fair, Thomas H. Quinn, David W. Schoonmaker, and George T Skinner...
...such a French giant as Schneider-Creusot. Its distinctions are two: 1) it is independent of Schneider-Creusot which owns or controls 412 arms and allied enterprises including Czechoslovakia's Skoda. 2) Though a French firm, its founder like its present managing director was a U. S. citizen, Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss, born in Watertown, Conn. in 1826, made a fortune manufacturing guns and munitions for the North during the Civil War. He went to Europe in 1867, established a cartridge factory in the south of France. His capital increased by profits from the Franco-Prussian War, he moved...
...list of the new members of the faculty and their appointments: Alan McNaughton, instructor in Greek and Latin and tutor in the Division of Ancient Languages; Edwin Mims, Jr., instructor in Government and tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics; Hubert Maxwell James, instructor in Physics; Benjamin Adsit Whisler, assistant in Sanitary Engineering...